title: An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir (Roughcut)
author:  Elizabeth McCracken 
description: In Elizabeth McCrackens heartrending memoira love letter to the child she lost and the devoted husband who suffered alongside herMcCracken displays her many talents. Her warmth, candor, crystalline prose, lovely imagery, and attention to detail bring her painful story to life. McCrackens dark sense of humor ensnares unwitting readers, belying the sadness with which she writes, and she shows very little patience for self-pity and sentimentality. Critics praised her clear-eyed account in a genre replete with syrupy, self-aggrandizing books, though some expressed doubts that its subject matter would have wide appeal. Im not ready for my first child to fade into history, explains McCracken. With this heartbreaking account of his life, theres little chance of that.<br />Copyright 2008 Bookmarks Publishing LLC
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  The General’s Ambition Copyright © 1995, 2010, 2017
  
  by Marcia Lynn McClure
  
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  ©Copyright 2017 by M. Meyers
  
  A.K.A. Marcia Lynn McClure
  
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  First Hardcover Edition: March 2017
  
  All character names and personalities in this
  
  work of fiction are entirely fictional,
  
  created solely in the imagination of the author.
  
  Any resemblance to any person living or dead is coincidental.
  
  McClure, Marcia Lynn, 