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Title:
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THE HEART IS AN INSTRUMENT
PORTRAITS IN JOURNALISM |
By: |
Madeleine Blais, Geneva Overholser (Foreword) |
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Paperback |

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ISBN 10: |
0870239422 |
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9780870239427 |
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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS |
Pub. date: |
24 October, 1994 |
Pages: |
360 |
Description: |
This volume presents 15 feature articles from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Madeleine Blais. She writes stories that illustrate the drama and importance of the life of each of her subjects. They include a portrait of Christine Falling, the baby killer, and a sketch of Tennessee Williams. |
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From the foreword by Geneva Overholser.What is it about really fine writers, how they delight, intrigue, compel us?Style, you say. But style is not something you begin with. Rather, it's what you end up with, a result of far more fundamental traits. Traits such as an ear and an eye and a heart, traits that Madeliene Blais has honed superbly well. This is a book well named: The Heart Is an Instrument: Portraits in Journalism. The heart is surely first among Blais's gifts. Whether she is writing about the famous--playwright tennessee Williams, novelist Mary Gordon--or about the least elevated among us--a teenage prostitute infected with the AIDS virus, a homeless schizophrenic--she brings to her subjects an incomparable empathy. |
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University of Massachusetts Press |
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