The Anarchist's Convention and Other Stories

by Sayles, John

• ISBN13: 9781560256915
• ISBN10: 1560256915
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-21
• Publisher: Bold Type Books

Summary

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 peoplea kid on the road heading west, aging political activists, a lonely woman in Bostongo 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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

I
Home for Wayfarers	3	(20)
At the Anarchists' Convention	23	(12)
Schiffman's Ape	35	(24)
The 7-10 Split	59	(10)
The Cabinetmaker	69	(16)
Old Spanish Days	85	(24)
II
Bad Dogs	109	(29)
Hoop	138	(18)
Buffalo	156	(5)
Fission	161	(39)
Breed	200	(29)
Golden State	229	(28)
III
Tan	257	(25)
Children of the Silver Screen	282	(10)
I-80 Nebraska, m.490-m.205	292