That is certainly the impression one receives from the memoir of Gustave Folcher. |
Part of the problem stems from the book's function as a memoir of the author's personal quest to discover whether her father was a Klansman. |
At any rate, she has elected to retrain as a journalist, and chosen to write a memoir of her playing days as her first book. |
That memoir has now become an even more anodyne film, to be released in Britain next week. |
His own lost mother makes a cameo appearance in the memoir as a dying woman in Majdanek. |
His book is part memoir, part meditation on the processes of reading and writing, and is thoroughly engaging. |