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A metaphorical memoir, slater blends a comingofage story with an electrifying exploration of the nature of truth, and of whether it is ever possible to tellor to know. A metaphorical memoir by lauren slater 20011001 lauren slater. A metaphorical memoir, slater blends a comingofage story with an electrifying exploration of the nature of truth, and of whether it is ever possible to tellor to knowthe facts about a self, a human being, a life. Acclaimed author lauren slater ruminates on what it means to be family. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read.
The author of the acclaimed welcome to my country describes in this provocative and funny memoir the ups and downs of living on prozac for ten years, and the strange adjustments she had to make to living normal life. In her memoir, lying 2000, lauren slater fabricates most of her life narrative. Opening skinners box great psychological experiments of the twentieth century. When all is said and done, theres only one kind of memoir i can see to write, and thats a slippery, playful, impish, exasperating text, shaped, if it could be, like a question mark.
Lauren slaters book, lying, may very well be a work of genius. A stunning new book about the role of animals in our lives, by a popular and acclaimed writer from the time she is nine years old, biking to the farmland outside her suburban home, where she discovers a disquieting world of sleeping cows and a private way full of the wondrous and creepy creatures of the wildspiders, deer, moles, chipmunks, and foxeslauren slater finds in animals a. A metaphorical memoir, lauren slater attempts to create a new kind of truth called metaphorical truth. A metaphorical memoir, slater blends a comingofage story with an electrifying exploration of the nature of truth, and of whether it is. A 1999 national magazine award nominee, lauren slater has a masters degree in psychology from harvard university and a doctorate from boston university. Nevertheless, this article maintains that slater lies in her memoir not to mislead readers but to witness traumas she struggles to access and articulate. It was very hard to follow her lie and follow her truth. And then to face the challenge of creating a whole new life. Jean levy i said to myself over and over again on the peter pan bus going to bread loafp116. In the beginning of part three lauren started to lie.
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Blue dreams also chronicles experimental treatments involving ecstasy, magic mushrooms, the most cuttingedge memory drugs, placebos, and even neural implants. Lauren slaters revelatory account charts psychiatrys journey from its earliest drugs, thorazine and lithium, up through prozac and other major antidepressants of the present. Therefore it need a free signup process to obtain the. A metaphorical memoir on your kindle in under a minute. The beauty of lauren slater s prose is shocking, said newsday about welcome to my country, and now, in this powerful and provocative new book, slater, isbn 9780375501128 buy the lying. Lying by lauren slater overdrive rakuten overdrive.
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