- Paperback: 236 pages
- Publisher: Heyday Books (November 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1890771228
- ISBN-13: 978-1890771225
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The San Francisco Foundation gives the Phelan and Jackson awards for literary achievement to writers under the age of 35. Writing Home is a retrospective collection of award-winning stories, essays, and poems, all featuring the theme "what it means to be a writer from the West." Contributors write about their experiences coming to the West as immigrants; they summarize the disappointments, challenges, and dashed hopes that come with exploring the traditional myth of the West; and they celebrate the cultural diversity that is a mainstay of literature of the New West. Each piece is accompanied by a biographical footnote. Many of the contributors indicate that winning this award initiated their recognition as a professional writer, making this book ideal for new writers. Selections include poetry by Jane Hirshfield, Robert Vasquez, Al Young, and James Schevill; fiction by Ernest J. Gaines, Mark Coovelis, and David Shields; and essays by Wendy Lesser, Lisa Michaels, Sallie Tisdale, and James D. Houston. Recommended for all writing and literature collections and regional libraries.
-Joyce Sparrow, St. Petersburg P.L., FL
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
-Joyce Sparrow, St. Petersburg P.L., FL
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
The James Duval Phelan and Joseph Henry Jackson awards, two of America's most distinguished and daring literary prizes, have long been administered by the San Francisco Foundation. Given to Western writers between the ages of twenty and thirty-five, many of the winners have gone on to notable writing careers and national prominence.
Writing Home delivers some of the most vivid, playful, and provocative writings by previous award-winners. Fenton Johnson describes his first glimpse of California on a television screen in a Kentucky living room. James Houston lovingly traces the migrations of his ancestors from Buncombe County, North Carolina, over the Appalachian Mountains and eventually to the West Coast. Ernest Gaines tells of a young black man's return home to the Deep South after having lived in the Bay Area. Wendy Lesser, Frank Chin, James Broughton, Leonard Gardner, Jane Hirshfield, Philip Levine, and others add their own unique voices and perspectives.
In this collection of memoir and personal essay, fiction, and poetry, a diverse group of award-winning and superbly skilled writers create a confederacy of voices. Sometimes they sing harmoniously, sometimes they argue with each other, but always, they return to the ambiguities and contradictions of living counter to and harmoniously with this mythic land.
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I bought this book at a bookstore in Santa Clara, California, on my way home to the east coast, because it just looked interesting. It turned out to be a great purchase. The perspectives were beautifully mixed. Nice blend of perspectives of those who came to the west under good circumstances and bad circumstances, for whatever opportunity awaited, from other countries or remote parts of this one. Definitely thought-provoking, pleasant, with lots of nice imagery evocative of so much that's interesting about the west coast.
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Ce commentaire est de: Writing Home: Award-Winning Literature from the New West (Paperback)
I bought this book at a bookstore in Santa Clara, California, on my way home to the east coast, because it just looked interesting. It turned out to be a great purchase. The perspectives were beautifully mixed. Nice blend of perspectives of those who came to the west under good circumstances and bad circumstances, for whatever opportunity awaited, from other countries or remote parts of this one. Definitely thought-provoking, pleasant, with lots of nice imagery evocative of so much that's interesting about the west coast. |
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