Define quasi autobiography
Quasi-autobiographical (not comparable).
It's just that it reads like the work of a smart, young person who hasn't decided what he wants to do with his writing.!
And Just What is a "Quasi-autobiography?"
In addition to reading more short stories, I believe the young should be reading more essays.
(And eating more raw vegetables, getting more exercise, and being more attentive to their mothers.) So when I stumbled upon Teen Angst? Nah... by Ned Vizzini, which was described on the cover as a "quasi-autobiography" and whose author included the word "essay" in his introduction, I snatched it up off the library shelf.
Autobiography is 'the narrative that a historical or other person makes of his thoughts and the events that have affected his life'.
Teen Angst? Nah...is more of a memoir than an autobiography, which I guess explains the "quasi." It's about Vizzini's experiences in high school (a high school for the mathematically gifted in New York City) and was written when he was between the ages of 15 and 18.
He has written for New York Press, an alternative newspaper, and wrote an article that was published in The New York Times Magazine. He's an experienced writer and something like 21 years old now.
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