The Auburn Conference - Couverture souple

Piazza, Tom

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 160938881X ISBN 13 : 9781609388812

Editeur : University of Iowa Press, 2023

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Iowa Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 160938881X
• ISBN 13: 9781609388812
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 199
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