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Tales of two planets : stories of climate change and inequality in a divided world / edited by John Freeman.
"Building from his ... anthology Tales of Two Americas, ... John Freeman draws together some of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live, ... [resulting in] a literary all-points bulletin of fiction, essays, poems, and reportage."-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780143133926 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: xxv, 290 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2020.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Penguin original"--Back cover. |
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| Subject: | Global environmental change > Literary collections. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 808.839355 Tales | 31681010202927 | NONFICPBK | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A follow-up to Tales of Two Americas gathers contributions from some of todayâs most accomplished international writers to illustrate the cause-and-effect impact of the environmental crisis on some of todayâs most vulnerable communities. (literary collections). Original. - Baker & Taylor
A follow-up to Tales of Two Americas gathers contributions from some of today's most accomplished international writers to illustrate the cause-and-effect impact of the environmental crisis on some of today's most vulnerable communities. - Penguin Putnam
Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live.
In the past five years, John Freeman, previously editor of Granta, has launched a celebrated international literary magazine, Freeman's, and compiled two acclaimed anthologies that deal with income inequality as it is experienced. In the course of this work, one major theme came up repeatedly: Climate change is making already dire inequalities much worse, devastating further the already devastated. But the problems of climate change are not restricted to those from the less developed world.
Galvanized by his conversations with writers and activists around the world, Freeman engaged with some of today's most eloquent storytellers, many of whom hail from the places under the most acute stress--from the capital of Burundi to Bangkok, Thailand. The response has been extraordinary. Margaret Atwood conjures with a dys¬topian future in a remarkable poem. Lauren Groff whisks us to Florida; Edwidge Danticat to Haiti; Tahmima Anam to Bangladesh; Yasmine El Rashidi to Egypt, while Eka Kurniawan brings us to Indonesia, Chinelo Okparanta to Nigeria, and Anuradha Roy to the Himalayas in the wake of floods, dam building, and drought. This is a literary all-points bulletin of fiction, essays, poems, and reportage about the most important crisis of our times.
