Dean Gessie

Anthropocene

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Readers searching for the artful language of Fitzgerald and the cultural relevance of Achebe in a volume that speaks directly to global citizens of the twenty-first century have finally found their lost ark in Anthropocene. It's not difficult to find writers today who explore problematic issues within our brave new world of cultural collisions, gender politics and new-look human subjugation. What is incredibly rare, however, is to find a writer willing to criticize contemporary social ills with both empathic concern and vehement distaste-as Gessie does-while remaining faithful to the craft of literary fiction. There's no dark corner he won't… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-71613-795-2
EAN: 9781716137952
Produktnummer: 34749287
Verlag: Lulu.com
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 150 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.8 cm 228 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 228

Über den Autor

Dean Gessie was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He enjoyed a long career as Head of the English Department at Pickering College in Newmarket, Ontario. While there, he was also Director of the award-winning Joshua Weinzweig Creative Writing Program. Gessie won Honorable Mention in the Press 53 Novella Competition. Also, one of his short stories was selected to the list of Highly Commended Stories in the international Manchester Fiction Prize. Most recently, Gessie published Guantanamo Redux, dystopian fiction about the near future in America and the byzantine complications of survival in an authoritarian state. Gessie has also written and served extensively as a social justice activist.