Maps to Anywhere (Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction)

Cooper, Bernard

ISBN 10: 0820319465 / ISBN 13: 9780820319469

Published by University of Georgia Press, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Maps to Anywhere (Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction)
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820319465
• ISBN 13: 9780820319469
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The essays in Maps to Anywhere plot terrain that is at once familiar and subtly strange. Writing on subjects ranging from his family to the origin of the barbershop pole, Bernard Cooper digs into the glimmering surface of the southern California landscape, observing the collision of the American Dream with the realities of everyday life. From the fragments, he discovers landmarks by which he attempts to make sense of contemporary America.

About the Author

BERNARD COOPER is the author of Guess Again, A Year of Rhymes, and Truth Serum. He has won numerous awards, including an O. Henry Prize, a PEN/Ernest Hemingway Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Getty Center for the Arts and Humanities Fellowship. He has taught at Antioch University, Los Angeles, and the UCLA Writer's Program.