Narrative Structure - Is It Making Us Liars? Truth and Autobiography in She Played Elvis

Authors

Shady E. Cosgrove, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

126318

Publication Details

Cosgrove, S. "Narrative Structure - Is It Making Us Liars? Truth and Autobiography in She Played Elvis." Offshoot Contemporary Life Writing Methodologies and Practice. Ed.D. Lee. Brien & Q. Eades. Crawley, Western Australia: UWA Publishing, 2018, 31-41.

Abstract

After I boarded an airplane to Sydney, a woman sat down beside me. As the eighteen-hour flight would reveal, she was forty-nine, a dental assistant, without children and happily married. By way of introduction, she clicked her seatbelt together and asked what I did for a living.