The author spoke in an articulate and moving way at Crime Fest last year about her experiences in the Hong Kong hostess industry, and her life-story (or what she told of it) made me intrigued by the prospect of her book. ❋ Maxine (2009)
Clearly, there is risk in bringing your own meager life-story into a chronicle that focuses on one of the greatest recent teams in professional sports. ❋ Terry Eastland (2011)
*** Technically an editor, but did document his life-story within the movie and there was a real book from it. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Every word Martone sets down, finally, a choice that limits the universe, their trail across the page a fossil record of some life's life-story. ❋ Unknown (2010)
O'Hagan practically admits that interest in Stevenson has been expressed almost exclusively through an obsession with his "life-story": ❋ Unknown (2009)
Fleming, Jackson Pollock etc. He meets lots of fictional people as well (not least his three wives) but this leavening of real personalities in his life-story was to make his journal seem true, convincingly real. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The book reads as a life-story, a testimony, a confidence, a kind of slap in the face of established order, ignorance and bondage, a raw truth that does not indict, but rather wraps the future in a cheering hope for Algerian women. ❋ Unknown (2009)
We, as a society, seem to have been lulled into a false belief that a life-story worth writing about is a series of highs and lows; full of action and interesting characters. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Autobiography's great saint was actually a saint: St Augustine, who wrote his own life-story as a confession or extended apologia to God. ❋ Nigel Hamilton (2010)
His new book, The Emperor of All Maladies, is, he says, constructed as a biography -- a life-story of the once unmentionable affliction, cancer. ❋ Nigel Hamilton (2010)
They don't need a biographer to organize Melville's life-story around "a flash of insight"; they need to read Melville's stories. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But no one was ever sure what to believe about him; the Dictionary of American Biography notes of his life-story that it is "fact ... liberally intermixed with highly-wrought fiction". ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)
It wasn't necessarily that the MSM - especially television - didn't want to know about George's life-story, it's just that they ... ❋ Unknown (2010)
Who pop into my head or my dreams and tell me or show me their life-story. ❋ Unknown (2010)
If the general election comes down to life-story, McCain wins. ❋ Unknown (2008)