The Auburn Conference - Paperback
by Tom Piazza
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Iowa PressISBN-13:9781609388812ISBN-10:160938881XUPC:9781609388812Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, HistoricalBook Topic:Civil War EraSize:7.90 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCH6K51B5T
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Iowa PressISBN-13:9781609388812ISBN-10:160938881XUPC:9781609388812Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, HistoricalBook Topic:Civil War EraSize:7.90 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCH6K51B5T
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.
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