Books : The Book of Life: A Compendium of the Best Autobiographical and Memoir Writing, Edited by Eve Claxton, Ebury Press, Pounds 20. Reviewed by James Cleary

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This lively and engrossing compendium of autobiographical and memoir writing allows the reader to gain an insight into the minds of a whole host of public figures from Quentin Crisp and Katharine Hepburn to Nelson Mandela and Muhammad Ali.

Written in a chronological style, the near 500-page collection quite literally takes us on the journey of a lifetime, reflecting the full range of emotions we experience from childhood innocence and teenage angst, to mid-life crisis to old-age contentment.

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Books : The Book of Life: A Compendium of the Best Autobiographical and Memoir Writing, Edited by Eve Claxton, Ebury Press, Pounds 20. Reviewed by James Cleary

As a genre too, the collecti...

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