The Canals of Mars: A Memoir Contributor(s): Fincke, Gary (Author) |
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ISBN: 0870138804 ISBN-13: 9780870138805 Publisher: Michigan State University Press OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2009045078 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 8.96" (0.86 lbs) 232 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The Canals of Mars is a memoir that explores and ponders "weakness," which in Gary Fincke's family was the catch-all term for every possible human flaw-physical, psychological, or spiritual. Fincke grew up near Pittsburgh during the 1950s and 1960s, raised by blue-collar parents for whom the problems that beset people-from alcoholism to nearsightedness to asthma to fear of heights-were nothing but weaknesses. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fincke, Gary: - Gary Fincke is Emeritus Charles Degenstein Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Writers Institute at Susquehanna University. A two-time winner of a Pushcart Prize, he has also won seven book prizes, including the Flannery O'Connor Prize for Short Fiction, The Journal Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize, and the 2017 Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose. |