title: I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory
author:  Patricia Hampl 
description: <i>I Could Tell You Stories</i> is a powerful work written by one of the most talented and thoughtful memoirists of our time. Patricia Hampl is passionate about the demands of memory and the responsibility to discover what matters in the past, the historical as well as the personal past. It is a disservice to this grandly original work to read it as a corrective to the self-absorbed autobiographies or our era, for she explores the illusive nature of memory and or the writer's quest for truth. In writing about St. Augustine, Sylvia Plath or the lessons learned at home, Hampl's voice is learned yet intimate, a gift of herself to the reader. -- <i>Maureen Howard</i><br /><br />A notable new collection . . . rich and idiosyncratic prose. -- <i><i>New York Times Book Review</i></i><br /><br />If I were trapped in an elevator for several days I would want this book with me--a cool drink of essential water. Patricia Hampl writes in the service of life in the very largest sense--writing that "makes a path" from reality to the soul. Bless her for her rigorous questioning mind, her open heart, and her fierce abiding love of this world. -- <i>Marie Howe</i><br /><br />Patricia Hampl is one of our best: a stylist of uncommon grace, a writer of absolute clarity, and a thinker whose unfailing intelligence is always informed by feeling. Here's an irreplaceable book, one to read again and again, to cherish. -- <i>Mark Doty</i>
zlib_text: Contents
  TITLE
  DEDICATION
  - ONE
  - TWO
  - THREE
  - FOUR
  - FIVE
  - SIX
  - SEVEN
  - DON'T FORGET!
  - ALSO BY JESSICA GADZIALA
  - ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  - STALK HER!
  
  N.Y.E.
  --
  Jessica Gadziala
  
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