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Essay discusses the style and provides a summary of "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden.
Short description about the book and style used, followed by a summary.
In Arthur Golden's debut novel, Memoirs of a Geisha, a variety ofstyles come to mind. He uses first person style writing, convincing one so muchit was true that on could wake up thinking they were a geisha. For the most partthough, his descriptive writing is chalk-full of similes and analogies. Hisdescriptions were so realistic and so accurate that one puts their head back inastonishment.
Golden seemed to aim for this, for in an interview he claimed that for a yearhe tricked readers into believing he simply put down a real geisha's words.However, it is now known that the book is quite fictional.
It may have seemed odd that a man was writing first person as a young womanin the early Twentieth century, but he became inspired by meeting a man in Tokyowho's mother was a geisha. He had.....
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