The Moth: This Is A True Story

Author: Catherine Burns, The Moth

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  • : $28.00 NZD
  • : 9781846689901
  • : Profile Books
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  • : May 2015
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 25mm
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  • : May 2015
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  • : English
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Description

Pull up an easy chair and settle into the most spell-binding collection of real stories you will ever read, from ordinary people and established writers including Malcolm Gladwell, Sebastian Junger and Nathan Englander. Introduced by Neil Gaiman

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Pull up an easy chair and settle into the most spell-binding collection of real stories you will ever read.

Reviews

"Brilliant and quietly addictive ... crammed with personality ... full of colour and life Guardian One of the hottest events in town ... enthralling, funny and moving" -- The Times


"New York's hottest and hippest literary ticket..." -- Wall Street Journal


"The stories not only maintain their oral integrity but take on new dimensions, allowing you to ponder a turn of events or swirl the language around in your head without missing the next part of the story." -- New York Times


"While these tales transport us into the lives of others, they also invoke recognition with our own; there are connecting wires with even the most disparate experiences and existences, the 'I's are turned into 'we's. They fulfil our fundamental human need to communicate, learn and grow through others." -- Alan Bett, The List


"The Moth is beautifully simple, authentic, a little bit therapeutic and utterly addictive. It is a joyful reminder of the power of the story the need for story-telling and the desire to listen, and to read, deeply." -- Helen Davies, Sunday Times


"[the stories] remains very much in the voices of those who spoke them and thus retain the vulnerability and rawness inherent in the situation of one person, alone at the mic, telling a room full of strangers something personal." -- Hermione Hoby, The Observer


"The Moth is my go-to gift book, a book to lift spirits, a book for people with very little time (I'm looking at you, new mums!), a book for people who don't read, a book to read aloud in company. A great book." -- Adam (staff)

Author description

The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth shows are renowned for the great range of human experience they showcase.