For Crying Out Loud: A Memoir

For Crying Out Loud is a bracing memoir by Richard Harsham, veteran
freelance writer who is, also, a noted essayist, and a playwright with
some twenty stage plays to his credit. For Crying Out Loud embarks on
an exploration of the personal past with verve and finesse. By turns
unflingchingly candid and riveting, Harsham's telling devoid of
self-pity, with lyrical recall at the ready, he successfully skirts
the pitfalls of sentimentally and the self-congratulatory clicking
that many memoirs ...