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Talk, Talk: A Children's Author Speaks to Grown-Ups

✍ Scribed by Konigsburg, E L

Book ID: 109883268
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Weight: 4 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781442429246

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✦ Synopsis

In TalkTalk E. L. Konigsburg presents a selection of speeches she has given over a period of 25 years. In her introduction to the first speech, and to the book as a whole, she explains:

"While each of my books has been written because I had a story I wanted to tell, these speeches were written because I had something I wanted to say. The audience for the former is children; for the latter, adults.... I recognize -- with a measure of amused detachment -- that some were written as a reaction to trends; others, to fads.

I have given these talks in cafetoriums, auditoriums, and the public rooms of Holiday Inns. Even though I have not always been on a stage when addressing an audience, I have tried to set the stage. Between talk and talk, I have written passages connecting the speeches to the time in which they were written and to one another. And that is TalkTalk. "

Always a thought-provoking speaker, she has chosen nine speeches that capture the essence of...

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