The Auburn Conference

Piazza, Tom

ISBN 10: 160938881X / ISBN 13: 9781609388812

Verlag: University of Iowa Press, 2023

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers G160938881XI4N00

Inhaltsangabe:

It is 1883, and America is at a crossroads. At a tiny college in Upstate New York, an idealistic young professor has managed to convince Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Confederate memoirist Forrest Taylor, and romance novelist Lucy Comstock to participate in the first (and last) Auburn Writers’ Conference for a public discussion about the future of the nation. By turns brilliantly comic and startlingly prescient, The Auburn Conference vibrates with questions as alive and urgent today as they were in 1883—the chronic American conundrums of race, class, and gender, and the fate of the democratic ideal.
 

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Tom Piazza’s twelve books include the novels A Free State and City of Refuge, the story collection Blues and Trouble, and his nonfiction work Why New Orleans Matters. He was a principal writer for the HBO series Treme, and lives in New Orleans.


 

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Auburn Conference
Verlag: University of Iowa Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket