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.
- ISBN10 0671830201
- ISBN13 9780671830205
- Publish Date 1 December 1980
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 November 2024
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Simon & Schuster
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 320
- Language English