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Item Details
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FINDING THE TRAP DOOR
ESSAYS, PORTRAITS, TRAVELS |
| By: |
Adam Hochschild |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£31.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0815604475 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780815604471 |
| Publisher: |
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 1997 |
| Pages: |
305 |
| Description: |
A collection of articles by American journalist Adam Hochschild. He revisits his time as a civil rights worker in Mississippi and as teenager seeing the apartheid firsthand in South Africa. Also included are profiles of figures such as Ernest Hemingway and John F. Kennedy. |
| Synopsis: |
Adam Hochschild was born in New York City in 1942. His first book, "Half The Way Home: A Memoir Of Father And Son," was published in 1986. It was followed by "The Mirror At Midnight: A South African Journey," and "The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin." "The Unquiet Ghost" won the Madeline Dane Ross Award of the Overseas Press Club of America, given to "the best foreign correspondent in any medium showing concern for the human condition. Hochschild's work has also won prizes from the World Affairs Council, the Eugene V. Debs Foundation and the Society of American Travel Writers. An anthology of his shorter pieces, "Finding The Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels," won the 1998 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the |
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illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Syracuse University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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