Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (Woman) Writer

by Nancy Mairs

Book Overview

Voice Lessons is a book about writing from a woman with a remarkable story to tell and an utterly distinctive voice in which to tell it. Nancy Mairs's essays have been called "triumphs... of will,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807060062
• ISBN13: 9780807060063
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

the writer's thin skin and faint heart

Mairs describes finding a writer's voice- reflections of enormous value because she has a prose style to kill for- witty, candid, utterly original, intellucally rigorous. She talks about her lukewarm realationship with the academcy while managing to actually put some extremely murky lit crit to good use Finally she talks about the downside of the writing life -- bad reviews, grants denied-- ''the writer's thin skin and faint heart''. Read this for sensual prose and writerly companionship.