The Sovereignty of Art by Thomas Mccarthy
The year 1969 was a time of war in Vietnam; it was a time of peace in Korea, however, as an armistice held on the Korean peninsula, two thousand miles north of Saigon. Almost three hundred Peace Corps volunteers were serving in Korea then as teachers and health workers. In The Time of the Monkey, Rooster, and Dog, author Charles A. Hobbie details his service in Korea as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English. It was a time of awakening for both Korea and for Hobbie.Filled with insights into the times and the people both in Korea and the Peace Corps, this memoir captures the essence of a rapidly changing nation. Hobbie narrates the experiences of his three unforgettable, challenging years in Korea from 1968 to 1971. He describes the people, streets, and markets of Daegu, the friendships and fellowship of students and fellow teachers, the rugged mountain ranges, the exuberance of Korean drumming and dancing, and the laughter and kindness of Korean families.
Told through the eyes of a young Peace Corps volunteer, this firsthand account provides a look at the early years of Korea's transformation while telling Hobbie's own life-changing story.
Thomas McCarthy was born in Mallow, Co. Cork Ireland and educated there and in Dublin. He has lived there and now has his home in Peterborough, UK. His stories have been published in PEN New Fiction 1 & 2; Sunk Island Review; Paris Transcontinental; The Literary Review; Cimarron Review; New Irish Writing; The Irish Press; StoryQuarterly. A collection of stories, The Last Survivor, was published in 1985. Citron Press published a novel A Fine Country in May 2000. A further collection of stories, Finals Day & Other Stories, was published in October 2002. His essay At Least You'll Never Starve is in the collection Writers On The Job, published by Hopewell Publications in the U.S. in 2008, and another esssay is to be included in an anthology due out from Serving House Books in 2010. At present, he is at work on a novel, Flannery's World, and a trilogy of linked stories called Morning Has Broken.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780262631952 |
| ISBN 10 | 0262631954 |
| Title | The Sovereignty of Art |
| Author | Thomas Mccarthy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The Mit Press |
| Year published | 1999-07-26 |
| Number of pages | 328 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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