THE ANARCHIST'S CONVENTION.

Sayles, John.

ISBN 10: 0233971564 / ISBN 13: 9780233971568

Published by BOSTON: ATLANTIC, LITTLE, BROWN. 1979, 1979

About this Item

First edition. SIGNED by John Sayles on title page. Very good+ in Vg. + dust jacket. (Previous owner's embossed stamp at base of page 88 in text. Strip of rubbing at bottom edge of front panel of jacket. Traces of rubbing on rear panel. Sticker impression on front end-paper. Top edge lightly foxed. ) Director/writer's THIRD book. Stories. (G). Seller Inventory # 17730

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE ANARCHIST'S CONVENTION.

Publisher: BOSTON: ATLANTIC, LITTLE, BROWN. 1979

Publication Date: 1979

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+

Edition: First Edition; First Printing.

About this title

Synopsis:

Before John Sayles was an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, he was a National Book Award-nominated writer of fiction. The Anarchists' Convention is his first short story collection, providing a prism of America through fifteen stories. These everyday people—a kid on the road heading west, aging political activists, a lonely woman in Boston—go about their business with humor and resilience, dealing more in possibility than fact. In the widely anthologized and O. Henry Award-winning "I-80 Nebraska," Sayles perfectly renders the image of a pill-popping trucker who has become a legend of the road.

About the Author:

If the U.S. were to boast one great independent film director, he would be John Sayles, a cult figure among his admirers. Nominated for both an Academy Award for scriptwriting and a National Book Award, Sayles has written screenplays, teleplays, short stories, and novels and has worked as a script doctor for a virtual who's who of Hollywood film and television talent.