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Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott is the bestselling author of Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies and of five novels, including Rosie and Crooked Little Heart. She lives in Fairfax, California, with her son.

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Bird by Bird
Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Written by Anne Lamott


Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 1, 1995
Price: $15.00

An honest and humorous step-by-step guide on how to write and how to manage the writer's life. From "Getting Started," with "Short Assignments," through "Shitty First Drafts," "Character," "Plot," "Dialogue."  All the way from "False Starts" to "How Do You Know When You're Done?" She discusses writer's Block, writing Groups, and the... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

Bird by Bird
Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Written by Anne Lamott


Format: eBook, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00

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Also available as a trade paperback.

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Crooked Little Heart
A Novel
Written by Anne Lamott


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 18, 1998
Price: $14.95

With the same combination of humor and honesty that animates her nonfiction works Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, Lamott's new novel portrays a not-untypical family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified by the unexpected. By bringing normally subsurface issues into relief, Lamott asks big questions... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

Crooked Little Heart
A Novel
Written by Anne Lamott


Format: eBook, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95

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Also available as a trade paperback.

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Operating Instructions
A Journal of My Son's First Year
Written by Anne Lamott


Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $13.95

It’s not like she’s the only woman to ever have a baby. At thirty-five. On her own. But Anne Lamott makes it all fresh in her now-classic account of how she and her son and numerous friends and neighbors and some strangers survived and thrived in that all important first year... Read more >

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Traveling Mercies
Some Thoughts on Faith
Written by Anne Lamott


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 15, 2000
Price: $15.00

Anne Lamott claims to know only two prayers by heart: "Help me, help me, help me" and "Thank you, thank you, thank you." She has a friend whose morning prayer each day is "Whatever," and whose evening prayer is "Oh, well." Anne thinks of Jesus as "Casper the friendly savior" and... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

Traveling Mercies
Some Thoughts on Faith
Written by Anne Lamott


Format: eBook
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 5, 2000
Price: $15.00

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Also available as a trade paperback.
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