Thread: MobileRead March 2015 Discussion: West with the Night (spoilers)
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Old 03-20-2015, 10:02 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
One question that kept recurring to me as I read this, Is how far can the art of memoir stray over the line of fiction? And does it matter?

I'm going to leave the authorship question aside, for now.
I thought about that as I read the book, especially after such comments on Goodreads about how the author was a "legend in her own mind" and etc., but decided to read the book as straightforward literature and came away feeling that this was one hell of a good yarn. How much is true I have no idea; I assume that most, if not all of it, is. Moreover, it didn't strike me as braggadocio, though I'm sure the author had a healthy supply of self-defense confidence.
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