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Highlights
- One of America's favorite teachers, Natalie Goldberg has inspired millions to write as a way to develop an intimate relationship with their minds and a greater understanding of the world in which they live.
- Author(s): Natalie Goldberg
- 224 Pages
- Self Improvement, Spiritual
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About the Book
The bestselling author of "Writing Down the Bones" offers her compelling story of love, loss, and betrayal--a memoir that is ultimately a search to discover the truth that lives within all great failures.Book Synopsis
One of America's favorite teachers, Natalie Goldberg has inspired millions to write as a way to develop an intimate relationship with their minds and a greater understanding of the world in which they live. Now, through this honest and wry exploration of her own life, Goldberg puts her teachings to work.
Review Quotes
"Teaching by example, Natalie Goldberg has written a brave and turbulent memoir that is by turns luminous and gritty." -- Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way
"A searingly honest memoir. I read it and immediately started again." -- Laura Davis, author of The Courage to Heal and I Thought We'd Never Speak Again
"Natalie writes with Zen-like clarity and heartful depth of feeling in an account that is bravely honest." -- Joseph Goldstein, author of One Dharma
Goldberg has taken readers into her world of raw feeling, real experience, and broad awareness...the path toward better understanding. -- Booklist
"Wonderful, focused and thought-provoking." -- The Oregonian (Portland)
The Great Failure is an important book - important because it is true. -- New Mexico Magazine