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Title Living on the edge : fiction by Peace Corps writers / edited by John Coyne.

Imprint Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press, 1999.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  813.0108 L761 1999    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st ed.
Description xv, 317 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents White lies / Paul Theroux -- Exile / Marnie Mueller -- Heroes of our stories / Mark Brazaitis -- Sun / Kathleen Coskran -- Easy in islands / Bob Shacochis -- Water-Girl / George Packer -- Guide / Melanie Sumner -- On the wheel of wandering-on / John Givens -- On Sunday there might be Americans / Leslie Simmonds Ekstrom -- Egg Queen rises / Mark Jacobs -- Mad dogs / Eileen Drew -- Ones left behind / Joan Richter -- Virgin twice / Karl Luntta -- Ma kamanda's latrine / Marla Kay -- American model / Terry Marshall -- Snow man / John Coyne -- Alone in Africa / Norman Rush.
Summary Stories by members of the Peace Corps, recounting their adventures in the Third World.
Subject Developing countries -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Americans -- Developing countries -- Fiction.
Peace Corps (U.S.) -- Fiction.
Culture conflict -- Fiction.
Added Author Coyne, John.
ISBN 1880684578

 
    
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