Getting Better All the Time : Las Vegas Writers Explore Progress

Dickensheets, Scott

Huntington Press（2014/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 128 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781935396550

Full Description

Produced in conjunction with the Vegas Valley Book Festival, this 2013 edition is the fifth collection in the series, with this year's contributions exploring the concept of "progress" in its broadest sense, from net positives -- downtown's rejuvenation; personal stories of emotional or spiritual growth -- to the flip-side of social dislocation and other dark portents highlighting the limits and risks of change and "modernisation". As a city that, from its very inception has consistently challenged convention, "Sin City" has always coined its own definition of progress. In these stories and essays by some of Las Vegas' finest writers, you will see how locals weave spectacle, risk, and reward into the narratives of civic, political, financial, and personal progress -- and at what price it comes.

Contents

Editors Note; The Birds of Minnesota by Aurora Brackett; Grown Up by Henry Brean; Healing by Abigail Goldman; The New Progress by John Katsilometes; To a Beadsman by Geoff Carter; More Human by Kris Saknussemm; Reclamation by Rena Mason; The Camera Girls by Sarah Jane Woodall; Host by Douglas Unger; About the Editor; About the Authors.NER(01): GB IE