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Running to the Fire: An American Missionary Comes of Age in Revolutionary Ethiopia
Langbeschreibung
In the streets of Addis Ababa in 1977, shop-front posters illustrate Uncle Sam being strangled by an Ethiopian revolutionary, parliamentary leaders are executed, student protesters are gunned down, and Christian mission converts are targeted as imperialistic sympathizers. Into this world arrives sixteen-year-old Tim Bascom, whose missionary parents have brought their family from a small town in Kansas straight into Colonel Mengistu's Marxist "Red Terror”.
Tim Bascom is the author of the novel "Squatters' Rites," the essay collection "The Comfort Trap," and the memoir "Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia," which won the Bakeless Literary Prize in Nonfiction. Excerpts from "Chameleon Days" won the Editor's Prize from "The Missouri Review" and were included in "The Best American Travel Writing." Bascom is an MFA graduate of the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa and has published in an array of literary journals and commercial magazines, including "North American Review, Witness, Creative Nonfiction, "and" The Christian Science Monitor." He is currently the Director of Creative Writing at Waldorf College and lives in Forest City, Iowa.
ISBN-13:
9781609383282
Veröffentl:
2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.04.2015
Seiten:
264
Autor:
Tim Bascom
Gewicht:
340 g
Format:
231x145x18 mm
Serie:
Sightline Books
Sprache:
Englisch
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