The History of the Future - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Edward McPhersonTheme:Chronological Period/20th CenturyPublish date:5/2/2017Pages:288
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Coffee House PressISBN-13:9781566894678ISBN-10:1566894670UPC:9781566894678Book Category:Literary Collections, Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Essays, Social HistorySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.4Product ID:SCC6MT0919
A collection of long essays centered on American places where the past is erupting into the present in unexpected ways. What does it mean to think about Dallas in relationship to Dallas? In The History of the Future, McPherson reexamines American places and the space between history, experience, and myth. Private streets, racism, and the St. Louis World's Fair; fracking for oil and digging for dinosaurs in North Dakota boomtowns--Americana slides into apocalypse in these essays, revealing us to ourselves.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Coffee House PressISBN-13:9781566894678ISBN-10:1566894670UPC:9781566894678Book Category:Literary Collections, Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Essays, Social HistorySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.4Product ID:SCC6MT0919
Edward McPherson is the author of two previous books: Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat (Faber & Faber) and The Backwash Squeeze and Other Improbable Feats (HarperCollins). He has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Paris Review, Tin House, and the American Scholar, among others. He has received a Pushcart Prize, the Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction, a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, and the Gesell Award from the University of Minnesota, where he received his MFA. He teaches creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis.
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