A daring foray into the groundbreaking genre of autobiographical fiction. Sad Old Faggot is the absorbing, sometimes embarrassing, always entertaining story of a lonely, self-obsessed, selfish, deluded, impotent 62-year-old gay...
Autobiographical fiction
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Author:Gilbert, SkySummary: - Author:Meruane, LinaSummary:
This autobiographical novel describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke, leaving her blind and increasingly dependent on those closest to her. Fiction and autobiography...
- Author:Brown, GeoffreySummary:
Can a breakup break you apart? In Self-Titled, Geoffrey Brown stares into a mirror and writes what he sees, what he thinks, what he feels. The result? A self-portrait that's at once comic and psychotic, a complex consciousness captured...
- Author:Portal, LouiseSummary:
Inspirée par des femmes qu'elle a connues et aimées, Louise Portal brosse quinze portraits de celles ayant appris à vivre seules. Qu'elles soient d'éternelles amoureuses ou qu'elles aient renoncé à l'amour...
- Author:Roberts, Gregory DavidSummary:
"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured."
So begins this epic...
- Author:Griffith, NicolaSummary:
From the author of Hild, a fierce and urgent autobiographical audiobook about a woman facing down a formidable foe. So Lucky is the sharp, surprising new audiobook by Nicola Griffith-the profoundly personal and emphatically political...
- Author:McCormack, MikeSummary:
A vital, tender, death-haunted work by one of Ireland's most important contemporary writers, Solar Bones is a celebration of the unexpected beauty of life and of language, and our inescapable nearness to our last end. It is All Souls...
- Author:Tagaq, TanyaSummary:
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read. Fact can be as strange as...
- Author:Pons, LeleSummary:
"Ten million followers and I still sit alone at lunch." Lele is a bulls-eye target at her new school in Miami until, overnight, her digital fame catapults the girl with cheerleader looks, a seriously silly personality, and a self-...
- Author:Lagueux, NathalieSummary:
Voici l'histoire de courage de Nathalie qui, depuis l'âge de 15 ans, a dû composer avec des troubles mentaux, des tentatives de suicide, la toxicomanie, l'itinérance et la violence. Malgré son mal de vivre, elle...
- Author:Bandi, Smith, DeborahSummary:
In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung’s totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the...
- Author:Robertson, LisaSummary:
A debut novel by acclaimed poet Lisa Robertson, in which a poet realizes she has written the works of Baudelaire. One morning, the poet Hazel Brown wakes up in a strange hotel room to find that she's written the complete works of...
- Author:Ramqvist, KarolinaSummary:
Feminist autofiction from one of Sweden's blazing talents. Blending autofiction and essay, The Bear Woman is a journey of feminism and literary detective work spanning centuries and continents. In the 1540s, a young French noblewoman,...
- Author:Tuck, LilySummary:
Lily Tuck has had a wonderful and accomplished career as a National Book Award winning novelist, story writer, essayist and biographer. She is one of our most distinguished contributors to American literature. With The Double Life of...
- Author:Cummings, E. E.Summary:
Drawing on E. E. Cummings's experiences in France as a volunteer ambulance driver, this novel takes us through a series of mishaps that led to the poet's being arrested for treason and imprisoned. Out of this trauma Cummings produced a...
- Author:Mainprize, ScottSummary:
The First Few Feet in a World of Wolves chronicles the fictionalization of the year the author spent teaching in Aupaluk (a remote Inuit community on the Ungava Coast of Nunavik). The second outlines, and explores, the history of...
- Author:Kang, YounghillSummary:
Autobiographical novel of a scholar’s son’s coming of age in small village during the Japanese occupation, though that is felt with some distance. Kang focuses on classical education in that era, traditions for holidays and ceremonies,...
- Author:Webstad, PhyllisSummary:
When Phyllis Webstad (nee Jack) turned six, she went to the residential school for the first time. On her first day at school, she wore a shiny orange shirt that her Granny had bought for her, but when she got to the school, it was...
- Author:Sharp, AdrienneSummary:
Now 99 years old, Mathilde Kschessinska sits down to write her memoirs, and ponders the life she lived as one of Russia's most talented dancers and the great love of Nikolai Romanov.
- Author:Dore, PaulSummary:
The Walking Man begins in the deserts of Jordan and explores a year in the life of the main character - someone very similar to the author - and his attempts to make sense of a tumultuous year. Based on many of the author's experiences...
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