The Women's Review of Books, October 1st, 2000
Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir by Lauren Slater. New York: Random House, 2000, 221 pp., $21.95 hardcover.
I exaggerate." So begins--and ends--the first chapter of Lauren Slater's third memoir, Lying. In the final sentence of the afterword, the simple statement is expanded: "[T]here is only one kind of illness memoir I can see to write, and that's a slippery, playful, impish, exasperating text, shaped, if it could be, like a question mark."
Between these two bookends, an underscore and a question mark, lies a tale so beautifully rendered--and indeed slippery, playful, impish, exasperating--th...
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