Memoir
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Our readers' favorite memoirs of the year.
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Too Human : A Political Education by George Stephanopoulos |
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Little Brown & Company Hardcover - 456 pages (April 1999) (March 11, 1999) |
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| Amazon.com A Rhodes scholar with a healthy ego, the young idealist George Stephanopoulos thought he was ready for the obscure governor of Arkansas. But soon after he signed on as his presidential-campaign manager, the odds of Clinton's triumph soared, and so did the chance for calamity via Gennifer Flowers and... Read more
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: A Memoir by Frank McCourt |
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Scribner Hardcover - 367 pages (September 21, 1999) (September 21, 1999) |
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| Amazon.com The sequel to Frank McCourt's memoir of his Irish Catholic boyhood, Angela's Ashes, picks up the story in October 1949, upon his arrival in America. Though he was born in New York, the family had returned to Ireland due to poor prospects in the United States. Now back on American soil, this awkward... Read more
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Angela's
Ashes : A Memoir by Frank McCourt |
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Touchstone Books Paperback - 363 pages (May 25, 1999) |
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| Amazon.com "Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood," writes Frank McCourt in Angela's Ashes. "Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." Welcome, then, to the pinnacle of the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Born in Brooklyn in 1930 to... Read more
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Into
Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer(Introduction) |
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Anchor Books Paperback - 378 pages (May 1998) |
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| Amazon.com "Intrinsically irrational" is how Jon Krakauer characterizes the compulsion to climb Mount Everest in his audiobook Into Thin Air. The highly publicized fates of the May 1996 Everest expeditions, including the tragic loss of 12 lives, seem to bear out Krakauer's statement. Listening to... Read more
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Hungry Ocean : A Swordboat Captain's Journey by Linda Greenlaw |
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Little Brown & Company Hardcover - 265 pages (May 1999) |
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| Amazon.com The term fisherwoman does not exactly roll trippingly off the tongue, and Linda Greenlaw, the world's only female swordfish boat captain, isn't flattered when people insist on calling her one. "I am a woman. I am a fisherman... I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl. If anything else, I... Read more
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Sky : A Memoir by Homer H. Hickam Jr., Homer H., Jr. Hickam |
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Bantam Books (Mm) Mass Market Paperback - 428 pages (March 1999) (February 16, 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Inspired by Werner von Braun and his Cape Canaveral team, 14-year-old Homer Hickam decided in 1957 to build his own rockets. They were his ticket out of Coalwood, West Virginia, a mining town that everyone knew was dying--everyone except Sonny's father, the mine superintendent and a company man so... Read more
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Falling
Leaves : The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah, Adeline Yen Mah |
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Broadway Books Paperback - 278 pages Reprint edition (May 1999) (April 6, 1999) |
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| Amazon.com Snow White's stepmother looks like a pussycat compared to the monster under which Adeline Yen Mah suffered. The author's memoir of life in mainland China and--after the 1949 revolution--Hong Kong is a gruesome chronicle of nonstop emotional abuse from her wealthy father and his beautiful, cruel... Read more
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Silk and Cyanide : A Codemaker's War 1941-1945 by Leo Marks |
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Free Press Hardcover - 613 pages (June 1999) |
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| Amazon.com At the age of 8, Leo Marks discovered the great game of code-making and -breaking in his father's London bookshop, thanks to a first edition of Poe's The Gold-Bug. At 23, as World War II was being played out in earnest, he hoped to use his strengths for the Allies. But Marks's urgent, witty memoir, ... Read more
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I'm
a Stranger Here Myself : Notes on Returning to America After Twenty
Years Away by Bill Bryson |
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Broadway Books Hardcover - 288 pages 1 Ed edition (June 1999) (May 4, 1999) |
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| Amazon.com In the world of contemporary travel writing, Bill Bryson, the bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods, often emerges as a major contender for King of Crankiness. Granted, he complains well and humorously, but between every line of his travel books you can almost hear the tinny echo: "I wanna go... Read more
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Golfer's Life by Arnold Palmer, James Dodson (Contributor) |
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Ballantine Books (T) Hardcover - 420 pages (March 1999) (March 16, 1999) |
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| Amazon.com From his first steps onto the public stage, this true icon of sport exuded an aura more inviting than off-putting, and his substantial record--92 titles worldwide, four Masters championships, a U.S. Open crown, and back-to-back British Open victories--speaks for itself. So does his autobiography. It... Read more
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