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The Best Memoirs of 2010 (page 2)

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NONFICTION
Released: June 2, 2010
Kirkus Star HITCH-22: A MEMOIR
by Christopher Hitchens
"Revealing and riveting. There's little about his brother, his two marriages or his children, but other memoirs may follow."
Hitchens (Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, 2009, etc.) offers an engrossing account of his lives as a British Navy brat, a socialist activist and a leading essayist and intellectual of our time. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: May 10, 2010
Kirkus Star FORGET SORROW: AN ANCESTRAL TALE
by Belle Yang
"A transformational experience for author and reader alike."
East meets West in this occasionally playful yet profoundly moving graphic memoir. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: May 4, 2010
Kirkus Star THE FINE WISDOM AND PERFECT TEACHINGS OF THE KINGS OF ROCK AND ROLL: A MEMOIR
by Mark Edmundson
"A near-perfect memoir."
Edmundson (English/Univ. of Virginia; The Death of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy of His Last Days, 2007, etc.) delivers a wily, playful, self-denigrating memoir. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: March 19, 2010
Kirkus Star CLAIMING GROUND: A MEMOIR
by Laura Bell
"A work of descriptive virtuosity and a hard, honest pull through rough emotional terrain--an exemplary memoir."
An elegant, deep-running chronicle of Bell's 30 years living in the mountain West. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2010
STREET SHADOWS: A MEMOIR OF RACE, REBELLION, AND REDEMPTION
by Jerald Walker
"Several cuts above standard memoirs."
Humorous, provocative tale of a young black writer racing past personal and historical demons. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 19, 2010
Kirkus Star JUST KIDS
by Patti Smith
"Riveting and exquisitely crafted."
Musician, poet and visual artist Smith (Trois, 2008, etc.) chronicles her intense life with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe during the 1960s and '70s, when both artists came of age in downtown New York. Read full book review >