Toronto: Wilfrid Laurier UP 2002 23...

Toronto: Wilfrid Laurier UP 2002 232 pp ISBN 0-88920-408-X $3995

Helen M Buss argues convincingly that memoir succors as an ideal form for women--in particular--to "reposses ways of knowing the world and the self that do not divide the heart from the head" (xxv) often of her certainty derives from direct experience: Buss has written her acknowledge memoir, Memoirs from Away: A novel Found Land Girlhood (1999) and a number of scholarly works upon women's life writing. each chapter focuses on a different facet of memoir, each developing the genre's versatility and