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American Lives
Alicia . Ed(S): Christensen
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Description for American Lives
Paperback. A collection of excerpts from the "American Lives" series. Editor(s): Christensen, Alicia. Series: American Lives. Num Pages: 326 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Memoirs are as varied as human emotion and experience, and those published in the distinguished American Lives Series run the gamut. Excerpted from this series (called “splendid” by Newsweek) and collected here for the first time, these dispatches from American lives take us from China during the Cultural Revolution to the streets of New York in the sixties to a cabin in the backwoods of Idaho. In prose as diverse as the stories they tell, writers such as Floyd Skloot, Ted Kooser, Peggy Shumaker, and Lee Martin, among many others, open windows to their own ordinary and extraordinary experiences. John Skoyles ... Read more
Memoirs are as varied as human emotion and experience, and those published in the distinguished American Lives Series run the gamut. Excerpted from this series (called “splendid” by Newsweek) and collected here for the first time, these dispatches from American lives take us from China during the Cultural Revolution to the streets of New York in the sixties to a cabin in the backwoods of Idaho. In prose as diverse as the stories they tell, writers such as Floyd Skloot, Ted Kooser, Peggy Shumaker, and Lee Martin, among many others, open windows to their own ordinary and extraordinary experiences. John Skoyles ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bison Original United States
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
Series
American Lives
Number of Pages
326
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803228054
SKU
V9780803228054
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99-16
About Alicia . Ed(S): Christensen
Alicia Christensen is the Bison Books editor at the University of Nebraska Press. Tobias Wolff is the author of numerous books, including the memoirs This Boy’s Life and In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War; the novel Old School; and, most recently, Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories. Contributors: Laurie Alberts, Marvin V. Arnett, Charles Barber, Mary Felstiner, Eli ... Read more
Reviews for American Lives
“You will see [the] quality of recognizable humanity glittering throughout the memoirs from which this book was drawn. . . . These writers are intensely interested in what lies beyond them—how the world at large acts, and acts on them, and, finally, hesitantly, how they themselves have acted upon the world. This is, after all, history—history from the inside out.”—from ... Read more