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Anne Lamott gives her perspective on the art and work of writing. The title comes from a family story when her brother had to complete a report on birds. He put it off until the last minute and was overwhelmed. Her father counseled him saying they would take it, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."
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Spare, warm, contemporary and intimate.
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Anne Lamott, Susan Bennett
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 239
- Publisher
- Canongate Books, The Audio Partners, Canongate Canons
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781411474147
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A novelist and writer of non-fiction, Anne Lamott was born in San Francisco in 1954. She wrote for the newspaper at Goucher College for the two years she attended. She wrote her first novel, *Hard Laughter* for her father after he was diagnosed with brain cancer. Howard Freeman's term "particularism" is aptly applied to her narrative nonfiction. Lamott draws on her own life and experiences in her writing, covering topics such as alcoholism, depression, being a single mother, Christianity, and the intersection between them.
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