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The magic of 18 people coming together in a creative synergy in the Life Writing Tutorial at the Huntington, West Virginia, Museum of Art bubbled over into this book of true-life tales, a number of which are headed for publication as whole books on their own.Here you will find stories of training to be an Olympic figureskater on an isolated windswept pond; of doing a delirious dance on the docks as anantidote to a crushing marital separation; of trembling in bed, waiting fora Soviet nuclear attack during the Cuban Missile Crisis; of Ndlazi the witch doctor operating out of a smoke-darkened hut in South Africa; of being chased by acherry-red gobbler turkey; of visiting the cell in a crumbling shut-down prisonwhere the writer's grandfather had died; and considerably more.For men and women of all ages who aspire to be published, THE LIFE WRITING CLASS is a welcome ray of inspiration -- and hope!Grace, John Patrick is the author of 'Life Writing Class', published 2002 under ISBN 9780967605166 and ISBN 0967605164.
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