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It All Changed in an Instant : More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous an Obscure - Larry Smith

It All Changed in an Instant

More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous an Obscure

By: Larry Smith

Paperback | 5 January 2010

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"A perfect distraction and inspiration, and a collection that begs to be shared. Be warned, though. If you plan to lend out your copy, start out with two. Once it leaves your hands you'll never see it again."
Denver Post (on Not Quite What I Was Planning)

The editors of the New York Times bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning are back with its much-anticipated sequel, It All Changed in an Instant. With contributions from acclaimed authors like Malcolm Gladwell, Frank McCourt, Wally Lamb, Isabel Allende, Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, and James Frey, and celebrities like Sarah Silverman, Suze Orman, Marlee Matlin, Neil Patrick Harris, Ann Coulter, and Chelsea Handler, It All Changed in an Instant presents a thousand more glimpses of humanity. . . six words at a time. In the vein of the popular Post Secret books, It All Changed in an Instant, in the words of Vanity Fair, "will thrill minimalists and inspire maximalists."

Industry Reviews

"Will thrill minimalists and inspire maximalists." -- Vanity Fair

"The brilliance is in the brevity." -- New York Post

"A perfect distraction and inspiration." -- Denver Post

"Irresistibly clever." -- Chicago Tribune

"American haiku." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"You could spend a lifetime brainstorming." -- The New Yorker

"The pithiest of life stories." -- O, The Oprah Magazine

"Makes for compulsive reading and prove arguably as insightful as any 300+ page biography. Taken as a whole, this cascade of quotes from contributors famous and unknown creates a dizzying snowball effect of perspectives and feelings." -- Publishers Weekly

"A torrent of self-expression not unlike the one launched by Frank Warren when he began inviting people to write their secrets on the back of postcards." -- Toronto Star

"The petite self-portraits encompass love and love, joy and sorrow-everything you'd expect from a longer book." -- ReadyMade Magazine

"A fabulously appealing exercise both for writers and for readers." -- Telegraph

"A good number conjure up both a story line and a worldview. Six-word review: Buy it, keep it in bathroom." -- Philadelphia Magazine

"I fell so in love with it." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Six words. Personal stories. Infinite possibilities. These ADD autobiographies prove that brevity can be the soul not simply of wit." -- VSL.com

"Dude's weird premise yields interesting stories." -- Ira Glass, NPR's This American Life

"Six-word memoirs leave book lover speechless." -- Rocky Mountain News

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