Your Life as Story Paperback by Tristine Rainer

Product Details

• Publisher: Tarcher (1998-04-13)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 368 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780874779226
• Item Weight: 385.56 grams
• Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24 x 2.31 cm

In Your Life As Story, autobiography expert Tristine Rainer explains how we can all find the important messages in our lives. Like Mary Karr or Frank McCourt, we can shape those stories into dramatic narratives that are compelling to others. Blending literary scholarship with practical coaching, Rainer shares her remarkable techniques for finding the essentials of story structure within your life's scattered experiences. Most important, she explains how to treasure the struggles in your past and discover the meaning within those experiences to capture the unique myth at work in your life.

About the Author

Tristine Rainer is the director of the Center for Autobiographic Studies in Pasadena, California. She teaches autobiographic writing at the University of California Los Angeles and at the University of Southern California.