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In this controversial anthology, award-winning critic Laurie Stone has created an astonishing collection of memoirs in which eight acclaimed writers go about the risky business of telling their own secrets. Close to the Bone scouts the territories of sex, the family, loneliness, the city, addiction, and AIDS, but these are not passive tales of victimization or sensationalistic scandal sheets. Rather, these writers speak in voices that are unflinching, unerring, and filled with revelation.
"Stone's collection of journeys down dark passages illuminates by means of sheer narrative brilliance."-The Washington Post Book World
"Small gems of the form . . . Engaging, often powerful writing is [this anthology's] common denominator. . . . A substantial collection." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Especially haunting is the input of Terminator. . . . His precocious insights illustrate why Close to the Bone-and memoirs in general-can be so affecting: The traumas of life, turned like clay in the hands of a skillful artisan, can sometimes be sculpted into new forms, illuminating truths previously hidden."-Willamette Week
"Addresses the memoir in our time and the culture of confession and recovery . . . Reminds us why [Laurie Stone] is one of our most valued critics."-Kirkus Reviews
Laurie Stone is the author of Starting with Serge, a novel, and Laughing in the Dark, a collection of essays on comic performance. She won the 1996 Book Critics' Circle Award for Excellence in Reviewing. She is the theater critic for The Nation.
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