num_pages: 352
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Anarchists' Convention and Other Stories
titlecomplete: The Anarchists' Convention and Other Stories
genres: Short Stories, Fiction
ratings_count: 141
publisher: Bold Type Books