Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home: Life on the Page - Softcover

PRAISE FOR READING, WRITING, AND LEAVING HOME

"To the tiny list of necessary books for people who aspire to the writing life--Mystery and Manners, by Flannery O'Connor, and One Writer's Beginnings, by Eudora Welty--must now be added Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home."--The Washington Post Book World

"Something for every writer, published or aspiring, to befriend over a period of years, a generous source of heat, heart, energy and consolation . . . What becomes clear from this powerful little book is that Lynn Freed truly does inspire."--San Francisco Chronicle

A collection of eleven essays by the award-winning author of The Curse of the Appropriate Man reflects on the art of writing and the relationship between fiction and life, in a volume that includes the tales of a scandal created by publication, a meditation on the mother-daughter bond, and the trials of teaching writing in order to pay the bills. Reprint.