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12%OFFSmith, Larry; Fershleiser, Rachel - It All Changed in an Instant - 9780061719431 - V9780061719431
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It All Changed in an Instant

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Description for It All Changed in an Instant Paperback. "Not Quite What I Was Planning" made six-word memoirs an international phenomenon, as people around the world shared terse true tales of romance, parenthood, friendship, ambition, failure, haircuts, and French fries. This title contains a thousand (more) glimpses of humanity from different writers. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 192.
"The New York Times" bestseller "Not Quite What I Was Planning" made six-word memoirs an international phenomenon, as people around the world shared terse true tales of romance, parenthood, friendship, ambition, failure, haircuts, and French fries. Thanks to massive media attention - from "The New Yorker" to "Vanity Fair" to "Entertainment Weekly" - the six-word memoir concept spread to classrooms,...
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"The New York Times" bestseller "Not Quite What I Was Planning" made six-word memoirs an international phenomenon, as people around the world shared terse true tales of romance, parenthood, friendship, ambition, failure, haircuts, and French fries. Thanks to massive media attention - from "The New Yorker" to "Vanity Fair" to "Entertainment Weekly" - the six-word memoir concept spread to classrooms, dinner tables, churches, synagogues, and tens of thousands of blogs. Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, "It All Changed in an Instant" contains a thousand (more) glimpses of humanity from writers famous and obscure, including Wally Lamb, Isabel Allende, James Frey, Ann Coulter, Tommy Chong, and Chelsea Handler-six words at a time.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780061719431
SKU
V9780061719431
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About Smith, Larry; Fershleiser, Rachel
LARRY SMITH is an adjunct associate professor of economics at the University of Waterloo and a recipient of the University of Waterloo's Distinguished Teacher Award. During his longstanding tenure, Smith has taught and counselled more than 23,000 students on the subject of their careers, representing more than 10 percent of UW's alumni. Smith has worked with more than 500 teams...
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LARRY SMITH is an adjunct associate professor of economics at the University of Waterloo and a recipient of the University of Waterloo's Distinguished Teacher Award. During his longstanding tenure, Smith has taught and counselled more than 23,000 students on the subject of their careers, representing more than 10 percent of UW's alumni. Smith has worked with more than 500 teams of student entrepreneurs, advising them as they have created companies of significant size and success across industries as broad-reaching as communications, software, robotics, entertainment, design and real estate. Smith is also president of Essential Economics Corporation, an economic consulting practice that serves a wide range of public and private clients. "Why You Will Fail to have a Great Career," his TEDx Talk based on his experience counselling students, has been viewed by over six million people. Rachel Fershleiser is SMITH's memoir editor and has written for the Village Voice, the New York Press, Print, and the National Post. Rachel lives in New York City.

Reviews for It All Changed in an Instant
"Will thrill minimalists and inspire maximalists."
Vanity Fair "The brilliance is in the brevity."
New York Post "A perfect distraction and inspiration."
Denver Post "Irresistibly clever."
Chicago Tribune "American haiku."
St. Louis Post-Dispatch "You could spend a lifetime brainstorming."
The New Yorker "The pithiest of life stories."
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"Will thrill minimalists and inspire maximalists."
Vanity Fair "The brilliance is in the brevity."
New York Post "A perfect distraction and inspiration."
Denver Post "Irresistibly clever."
Chicago Tribune "American haiku."
St. Louis Post-Dispatch "You could spend a lifetime brainstorming."
The New Yorker "The pithiest of life stories."
O, The Oprah Magazine "Makes for compulsive reading and prove arguably as insightful as any 300+ page biography. Taken as a whole, this cascade of quotes from contributors famous and unknown creates a dizzying snowball effect of perspectives and feelings."
Publishers Weekly "A torrent of self-expression not unlike the one launched by Frank Warren when he began inviting people to write their secrets on the back of postcards."
Toronto Star "The petite self-portraits encompass love and love, joy and sorrow-everything you'd expect from a longer book."
ReadyMade Magazine "A fabulously appealing exercise both for writers and for readers."
Telegraph "A good number conjure up both a story line and a worldview. Six-word review: Buy it, keep it in bathroom."
Philadelphia Magazine "I fell so in love with it."
Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Six words. Personal stories. Infinite possibilities. These ADD autobiographies prove that brevity can be the soul not simply of wit."
VSL.com "Dude's weird premise yields interesting stories."
Ira Glass, NPR's This American Life "Six-word memoirs leave book lover speechless."
Rocky Mountain News

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