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  • adjective In the style of a memoir.

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memoir +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • Before this book, I wrote two memoirish novellas, a novel, and a book-length collection of short stories.

    mrissa: Three questions almost make up an entry mrissa 2010

  • The novel, which is narrated by a young man named Hayat, has a memoirish tone and multigenerational sweep, which has prompted comparisons to Khaled Hosseini's best seller "The Kite Runner."

    'Dervish' Whirls Into Publishing World Alexandra Alter 2012

  • In looking over my life which unfortunately must be done when writing an embarrassing memoirish tome like the one you are reading, my hyperambition to succeed might well have been tied to this need for revenge.

    Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons Greg Fitzsimmons 2010

  • Mr. Breitbart said the book will also include memoirish elements and come out after the 2010 election.

    Drudge's Henchman Hits Big Time With Book 2009

  • Mr. Breitbart said the book will also include memoirish elements and come out after the 2010 election.

    Drudge's Henchman Hits Big Time With Book 2009

  • Mr. Breitbart said the book will also include memoirish elements and come out after the 2010 election.

    Drudge's Henchman Hits Big Time With Book 2009

  • However, given the sheer amount of memoirish fiction and fictional memoir that has been produced in the past decade, it's shocking, appalling and lots of other prudish, literary - ings, that the last even minor literary "breakthrough" on this front was A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius six or seven years ago.

    What is the Purpose of Criticism? 2006

  • However, given the sheer amount of memoirish fiction and fictional memoir that has been produced in the past decade, it's shocking, appalling and lots of other prudish, literary - ings, that the last even minor literary "breakthrough" on this front was A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius six or seven years ago.

    SeeLight: 2006

  • They talked for around an hour about her “wanting to write some memoirish piece about having lived a fair amount of her life on the Internet in her first years in New York; I was interested.”

    The Times Magazine Dapples Sunlight On Its Memoirist 2008

  • He doesn't get a lot of stage time, but has a couple of very significant scenes in this memoirish immigrant story.

    100 Cool Teachers in Children's Literature -- The One Year Anniversary Mary Lee 2007

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