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

Title
  1. Living on the edge : fiction by Peace Corps writers / edited by John Coyne.
Published by
  1. Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press, 1999.

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Additional authors
  1. Coyne, John
Description
  1. xv, 317 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. Stories by members of the Peace Corps, recounting their adventures in the Third World. Typical is Ma Kamanda's Latrine by Marla Kay Houghteling, in which an African chief turns down the heroine's request for a latrine, suggesting she use the bush like everyone else. "After years of British, we do not need Americans telling us how to do things."
Subject
  1. Romans
  2. Novels
  3. Fiction
  4. Short stories, American
  5. novels
  6. Developing countries > Social life and customs > Fiction
  7. Americans > Developing countries > Fiction
  8. Culture conflict > Developing countries > Fiction
  9. Peace Corps (U.S.) Fiction
Genre/Form
  1. Short stories, American.
  2. novels.
  3. Short stories, American
  4. Fiction
  5. Novels
  6. Romans.
Contents
  1. White lies / Paul Theroux -- Exile / Marnie Mueller -- The heroes of our stories / Mark Brazaitis -- Sun / Kathleen Coskran -- Easy in the islands / Bob Shacochis -- The water-girl / George Packer -- The guide / Melanie Sumner -- On the wheel of wandering-on / John Givens -- On Sunday there might be Americans / Leslie Simmonds Ekstrom -- The egg queen rises / Mark Jacobs -- Mad dogs / Eileen Drew -- The ones left behind / Joan Richter -- A virgin twice / Karl Luntta -- Ma Kamanda's latrine / Marla Kay Houghteling -- American model / Terry Marshall -- Snow man / John Coyne -- Alone in Africa / Norman Rush.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library