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  • Every word Martone sets down, finally, a choice that limits the universe, their trail across the page a fossil record of some life's life-story.

    Experimental Fiction 2010

  • O'Hagan practically admits that interest in Stevenson has been expressed almost exclusively through an obsession with his "life-story":

    The Biographical Fallacy 2009

  • The author spoke in an articulate and moving way at Crime Fest last year about her experiences in the Hong Kong hostess industry, and her life-story (or what she told of it) made me intrigued by the prospect of her book.

    Burial and The Trophy Taker Maxine 2009

  • Clearly, there is risk in bringing your own meager life-story into a chronicle that focuses on one of the greatest recent teams in professional sports.

    A Fan on the Couch Terry Eastland 2011

  • The author spoke in an articulate and moving way at Crime Fest last year about her experiences in the Hong Kong hostess industry, and her life-story (or what she told of it) made me intrigued by the prospect of her book.

    Burial and The Trophy Taker Maxine 2009

  • The author spoke in an articulate and moving way at Crime Fest last year about her experiences in the Hong Kong hostess industry, and her life-story (or what she told of it) made me intrigued by the prospect of her book.

    January 2009 Maxine 2009

  • Fleming, Jackson Pollock etc. He meets lots of fictional people as well (not least his three wives) but this leavening of real personalities in his life-story was to make his journal seem true, convincingly real.

    William Boyd - An interview with author 2010

  • The book reads as a life-story, a testimony, a confidence, a kind of slap in the face of established order, ignorance and bondage, a raw truth that does not indict, but rather wraps the future in a cheering hope for Algerian women.

    Global Voices in English » World Book Day: Women’s lives in the mirror of their men 2009

  • *** Technically an editor, but did document his life-story within the movie and there was a real book from it.

    Top 10 Movie Journalists » Scene-Stealers 2009

  • We, as a society, seem to have been lulled into a false belief that a life-story worth writing about is a series of highs and lows; full of action and interesting characters.

    Do we all have a story? « Write Anything 2010

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