Fall and Rise, American Style: Eight International Writers Between Gettysburg and the Gulf

by Madeleine Thien, Alice Pung, Eduardo Halfon, et al.

An international group of well-established writers have been brought together by the exchange program Writers in Motion: Fall and Recovery to reflect on America's still open wounds from unresolved crises and vast troubling legacies. For ten days the visiting writers, all of whom had written on large-scale disasters in other contexts, were steeped in ongoing American problems and wrote on topics stretching from the Civil War to the BP oil spill, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0982746644
• ISBN13: 9780982746646
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Autumn Hill Books
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.0"