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Bending truth in a million little ways - Sun-Sentinel.com

James Frey's admission two weeks ago that he Made up details of his life in his best-selling book A Million Little Pieces -- after the Smoking Gun Web site stated that he "wholly fabricated or wildly embellished details of his purported criminal career, jail terms and status as an outlaw `wanted in three states'" -- created a furor about the decision by the book's publisher, Doubleday, to sell the volume as a memoir instead of a novel. It is not, however, just a case about truth-in-labeling or the misrepresentations of One author: After all, there have been plenty of charges about phony or inflated memoirs in the past, most notably about Lillian Hellman's 1973 book Pentimento. It is a case about how much value contemporary culture places on the very idea of truth. Indeed, Frey's contention that having 5 percent or so of his book in dispute Was "comfortably within the realm of what's appropriate for a memoir" and the troubling insistence of his publisher and his cheerleader Oprah Winfrey that it really didn't matter if he'd taken liberties with the facts of his story underscore the waning importance people these days attach to objectivity and veracity. We live in - More available

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