The Situation and the Story
Subtitle: The Art of Personal Narrative
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2002
Number of pages: 192
Table of contents: title: Vivian Gornick presents readers with examples of some of the best essays and memoirs of the past century, analyzing how the idea of the self has changed. Gornick explores the truth speaker in works by Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, and Oscar Wilde, and discusses how to recognize truth in your own work.