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Item Details
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LESSONS IN PERSUASION
CREATIVE NONFICTION/PITTSBURGH CONNECTIONS |
| By: |
Lee Gutkind (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£25.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0822957159 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780822957157 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 December, 1999 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
A collection of essays by writers with connections to Pittsburgh. Some live there now, some were born there, others studied there. The essays cover topics as diverse as a stripper's work ethics and the understanding of life through poetry, but all are the work of writers associated with the city. |
| Synopsis: |
Pittsburgh has always been despite its industrial reputation a great city in which to be a writer. Its active, close-knit writing community has seen the rise of several luminaries with Pittsburgh connections, such as Annie Dillard and Stewart O Nan, and the caliber of Pittsburgh s writing community today is better than ever. Lee Gutkind has assembled a reunion of sorts with writers from across the nation, as well as the up-and-coming stars on the local scene each of whom has a Pittsburgh connection. Many grew up in the region, others attended college here: all of them have an association with the city. The resulting collection of essays is both gentle and jarring, eclectic and persuasive, covering a range of topics from a stripper s work ethic to West Virginia s famed Matewan shootout, Atlantic City s Boardwalk before Donald Trump, and the uses of poetry to better understand one s own life. Although Pittsburgh is not the subject of most of the essays, these writers are bound by their affinity for the written word and their collective fondness for Pittsburgh." |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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