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Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives
by Louise Desalvo
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780807072431 |
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
'Highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo offers the first detailed writing program designed for healing. DeSalvo shows how anyone can use writing as a way to overcome the emotional and physical wounds that arn an inevitable part of life. She culls journals, diaries, letters, and works of dozens of famouns writers and students of the craft to illustrate how people \"change physically and psychologically when they work on projects that grow from a deep, authentic place.\" With insight and with, she illuminates how the writing process has transformed authors such as Virginia Woolf, Henry Miller, Audre Lorde, and Isabel Allende. WRITING AS A WAY OF HEALING gives valuable advice and practical techniques to guide and inpsire both experienced and beginning writers.'
Synopsis:
In the first detailed writing program designed specifically for healing, DeSalvo shows how writing can overcome physical and emotional wounds. She culls journals, diaries, letters, and works of dozens of famous writers and students to illustrate how writing has helped people.
About the Author
'Louise DeSalvo, author of Vertigo: A Memoir and Virginia Woolf: Sexual Abuse in Her Life and Work, is professor of English at Hunter College.'
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780807072431
- Subtitle:
- How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives
- Author:
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Beacon Press
- Location:
- Boston :
- Subject:
- Journal Writing
- Subject:
- Authorship
- Subject:
- Healing
- Subject:
- Diaries
- Subject:
- General Self-Help
- Copyright:
- 2000
- Edition Description:
- Trade paper
- Series Volume:
- 145
- Publication Date:
- March 2000
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 240
- Dimensions:
- 832x558x68 69
