Living on the Edge: Fiction by Peace Corps Writers - Coyne, John
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Living on the Edge contains seventeen remarkable stories by writers who served in the Peace Corps, including well-known authors such as John Coyne, John Givens, Norman Rush, and Paul Theroux, as well as work by exciting emerging authors like Mark Jacobs and Marnie Mueller. All these stories reflect the impact the Peace Corps experience had on former volunteers who write across cultures in the literary tradition of Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, and Paul Bowles. Cross-cultural writers, as Eileen Drew puts it, "see things from outside the mainstream." The writers included here all have something…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Living on the Edge contains seventeen remarkable stories by writers who served in the Peace Corps, including well-known authors such as John Coyne, John Givens, Norman Rush, and Paul Theroux, as well as work by exciting emerging authors like Mark Jacobs and Marnie Mueller. All these stories reflect the impact the Peace Corps experience had on former volunteers who write across cultures in the literary tradition of Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, and Paul Bowles. Cross-cultural writers, as Eileen Drew puts it, "see things from outside the mainstream." The writers included here all have something significant to say to America about the world in which we live. A unique feature of Living on the Edge is that each author has included a commentary on how he or she came to write the anthologized story.
Autorenporträt
John Coyne was with the first group of Volunteers to Ethiopia and taught English in Addis Ababa. Later, he was an Associate Peace Corps Director in Ethiopia and the Regional Manager of the New York Peace Corps Office. In 1989, he founded RPCV Writers & Readers, a newsletter for and about Peace Corps volunteers. He is the author of more than 25 nonfiction and fiction books, and edited, among other books, Going Up Country: Travel Essays by Peace Corps Writers. He currently lives in Pelham Manor, New York, with his wife and son, where he works in communications and edits PeaceCorpsWriters.org.