The Factory of Facts: A Memoir neighbor is at once learned and

is at once learned and a pleasure to read

unexpected kind

This book organizes Abbott's by now classic letters to Mailer

“I think like a genius

• “Terrific

The Factory of Facts: A Memoir neighbor is at once learned andAuthor Contributor(s): Sante, Lucy Publisher: Vintage Date: 3 30 1999 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW The acclaimed author of Low Life reinvents the memoir in a cunning, lyrical book that is at once a personal history and a meditation on the construction of identity. Born in Belgium but raised in New Jersey, Lucy Sante transformed herself from a pious, timid Belgian child into a boisterous American adolescent, who eschewed French while fantasizing