Gut Feelings: A Writer'S Truths And Minute Inventions

Gut Feelings: A Writer'S Truths And Minute Inventions

From the Back Cover"One reads Gerber headlong, driven to turn her pages as rapidly as possible, leaping toward resolution."-Cynthia Ozick, author of The Puttermesser Papers and Quarrel & Quandary"These pieces move back and forth across the boundary between memoir and fiction. Vivid and gripping, they offer memorable characters and events. One narrative moves deeply into a marital relationship-suggesting a kind of paradigm for the systole and diastole of marriage that I found profoundly moving. And troubling. And satisfying."-Janet Burstein, Drew UniversityIn these highly personal essays and powerful tales that verge on memoir, Merrill Joan Gerber opens to us her life and work as a writer. She is candid and unflinching in revealing the truths and inventions of a writer