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Anne Lamott

Autor de Pajaro a pajaro

32+ Obras 29,080 Miembros 693 Reseñas 131 Preferidas

Sobre El Autor

Anne Lamott was born on April 10, 1954 in San Francisco, California. She began writing when she returned to California after spending two years at Goucher College, but her early efforts, mostly short stories, met with little success. The turning point in her writing came with a family crisis, when mostrar más her father was diagnosed with brain cancer. She wrote a series of short pieces about the traumatic effect that serious illness has on a family. These pieces were published, and they eventually became the basis of her first novel, Hard Laughter, published in 1980. During the 1980s, she wrote three additional novels, Rosie, Joe Jones and All New People. In 1989, her life took another turn when her son was born. Her next book, published in 1993, was a non-fiction effort called Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year. She wrote ironically, but candidly, about her struggles to adjust to her new role as a mother and a single parent, and her experiences with everything from sleep deprivation to financial and emotional uncertainty to concerns about what she would tell her son when he was old enough to ask about his absent father. Operating Instructions proved to be even more successful than her novels, and led to interviews on network news programs and a regular spot on National Public Radio. Her other works include Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life; Crooked Little Heart; Blue Shoe, Imperfect Birds, and Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son. Her title Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. Her title Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair and Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace also made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Series

Obras de Anne Lamott

Pajaro a pajaro (1994) 10,154 copias
Blue Shoe (2002) 1,238 copias
Crooked Little Heart (2011) 926 copias
Imperfect Birds (2010) 658 copias
Rosie (1983) 632 copias
Hard Laughter (1980) 499 copias

Obras relacionadas

A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader (2018) — Contribuidor — 234 copias
Cuando Ocurrio No Me Hizo Ninguna Gracia (2000) — Contribuidor — 233 copias
Me, My Hair, and I: Twenty-seven Women Untangle an Obsession (2015) — Contribuidor — 139 copias
The Best Spiritual Writing 1998 (1998) — Contribuidor — 101 copias
Autumn: A Spiritual Biography of the Season (2004) — Contribuidor — 57 copias

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
1954-04-10
Género
female
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
San Francisco, California, USA
Lugares de residencia
San Francisco, California, USA
Fairfax, California, USA
Educación
Drew College Preparatory School
Ocupaciones
author
novelist
writer
Relaciones
Lamott, Sam (son)
Premios y honores
Guggenheim Fellowship (1985)
Agente
Steven Barclay Agency (12 Western Avenue • Petaluma, California • 94952)
Biografía breve
Born in San Francisco, Anne Lamott is the author of five novels and three works of nonfiction, and the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. She has been a book reviewer for Mademoiselle, a restaurant critic for California magazine, and a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. She also writes a popular column for the on-line magazine Salon, which Time magazine noted "could alone be the Best of the Web." Anne Lamott lives in northern California with her son, Sam.

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Reseñas

Writing is lonely. So whenever I start a new project, I look for a book about it I haven’t read yet. It’s like having a sympathetic friend holding my hand, reassuring me.
Somehow, the book I choose is precisely what I need. Well, that’s not always true, but when it’s not, I quickly spot it and move on to another. But this one filled the bill. It came out thirty years ago, but I only recently became aware of it, although I remember hearing her spots on NPR way back when.
Lamott’s advice in this book is sensible, even if little of it is new. It’s not a problem; I need to hear it all again with each new project. And I’ve never read it in such a humorous, self-deprecating manner. She and her friends sound like a lovable, walking collective of personality disorders (I think those are really her words, but right now, I can’t find the quote). Somehow, they keep each other’s spirits up.
She is honest about the rivalry and jealousy writers experience. She also makes it clear (repeatedly) that publication is not the main reason to write, much less the gateway to fixing everything wrong in your life. If, toward the end, her reporting of her neuroses wears thin through repetition, along the way, there are descriptions of it that had me laughing out loud.
This book helped me get through the first five days of a new project, allowing me to make a solid start. Thank you, Anne, for being there.
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HenrySt123 | 237 reseñas más. | Jan 31, 2024 |
Absolutely charming, but stale and a little oblivious.
 
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ethorwitz | 237 reseñas más. | Jan 3, 2024 |
I so identify with every small feeling and anxiety she has about herself and others that I'm almost ready to sign up for her support groups and church suppers. The insights into writing and ego and truth reflected and articulated here are so authentic that it seems like revealed truth, like truth I already knew. It also made me feel extremely neurotic.
 
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jennifergeran | 237 reseñas más. | Dec 23, 2023 |
This book is over-rated. I can see why this book is so popular, but Lamott just tries too hard to be funny. Her two key concepts, working with small assignments and producing shitty first drafts, are valuable, although most working writers figure them out on their own.

Honestly, I enjoyed the prologue more than the rest of the book.
 
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LizzK | 237 reseñas más. | Dec 8, 2023 |

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Obras
32
También por
15
Miembros
29,080
Popularidad
#686
Valoración
3.9
Reseñas
693
ISBNs
246
Idiomas
6
Favorito
131

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