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In a bold and brilliant memoir that reinvents the form, Elizabeth Tallent, acclaimed author of the novel
Museum Pieces and the collection
Mendocino Fire, explores the ferocious desire for perfection which has shaped her writing life as well as her rich, dramatic, and constantly surprising personal life. Elizabeth traces her journey from her early years as “the child whose flaws let disaster into an otherwise perfect family,” to her adulthood, when perfectionism came to affect everything. Between the ages of 27 and 37, she published five literary books with Knopf and her short stories appeared in
The New Yorker. But in the following 22 years she wrote, or rather published, nothing at all. Why?
Scratched is the remarkable response to that question. This memoir, filled with wit, humor, and heart, is unlike any other you will read. Elizabeth Tallent reads from and discusses her work with author/critic Vincent Scarpa.
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