Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Author:   Anne Lamott
Publisher:   Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Edition:   Anchor Books ed
ISBN:  

9780385480017


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 September 1995
Format:   Paperback
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"NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . An essential volume for generations of writers young and old. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this modern classic will continue to spark creative minds for years to come. Anne Lamott is ""a warm, generous, and hilarious guide through the writer's world and its treacherous swamps"" (Los Angeles Times). ""Superb writing advice.... Hilarious, helpful, and provocative."" -The New York Times Book Review For a quarter century, more than a million readers-scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities-have been inspired by Anne Lamott's hilarious, big-hearted, homespun advice. Advice that begins with the simple words of wisdom passed down from Anne's father-also a writer-in the iconic passage that gives the book its title- ""Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.'"""

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Author:   Anne Lamott
Publisher:   Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Imprint:   Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Edition:   Anchor Books ed
Dimensions:   Width: 13.10cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 20.40cm
Weight:   0.261kg
ISBN:  

9780385480017


ISBN 10:   0385480016
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 September 1995
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

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Superb writing advice... hilarious, helpful andprovocative. -- New York Times BookReview. A warm, generous andhilarious guide through the writer's world and itstreacherous swamps. -- Los AngelesTimes. A gift to all ofus mortals who write or ever wanted to write...sidesplittingly funny, patiently wise and alternatelycranky and kind -- a reveille to get off our duffsand start writing now, while westill can. -- SeattleTimes.


Superb writing advice... hilarious, helpful and provocative. -- New York Times Book Review, <br> A warm, generous and hilarious guide through the writer's world and its treacherous swamps. -- Los Angeles Times, <br> A gift to all of us mortals who write or ever wanted to write... sidesplittingly funny, patiently wise and alternately cranky and kind -- a reveille to get off our duffs and start writing now, while we still can. -- Seattle Times,


Superb writing advice... hilarious, helpful andprovocative. -- <i>New York Times BookReview</i>. A warm, generous andhilarious guide through the writer's world and itstreacherous swamps. -- <i>Los AngelesTimes</i>. A gift to all ofus mortals who write or ever wanted to write...sidesplittingly funny, patiently wise and alternatelycranky and kind -- a reveille to get off our duffsand start writing <i>now</i>, while westill can. -- <i>SeattleTimes</i>.


Superb writing advice... hilarious, helpful and provocative. -- New York Times Book Review . A warm, generous and hilarious guide through the writer's world and its treacherous swamps. -- Los Angeles Times . A gift to all of us mortals who write or ever wanted to write... sidesplittingly funny, patiently wise and alternately cranky and kind -- a reveille to get off our duffs and start writing now , while we still can. -- Seattle Times .


Author Information

ANNE LAMOTT is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Almost Everything; Hallelujah Anyway; Help, Thanks, Wow; Small Victories; Stitches; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually); Plan B; Traveling Mercies; and Operating Instructions. She is also the author of seven novels, including Imperfect Birds and Rosie. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California.

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