Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (543 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1938466233 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Phong Nguyen is editor of Pleiades and author of PAGES FOR THE TEXTBOOK OF ALTERNATE HISTORY (2014) and MEMORY SICKNESS AND OTHER STORIES (2011). . He directs the Unsung Masters Series, for which he edited the volume, NANCY HALE: ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF A LOST AMERICAN MASTER (2012). Nguyen teaches fiction and American literature at the University of Central Missouri, where he lives with his wife, the artist Sarah Nguyen, and their three children
He directs the Unsung Masters Series, for which he edited the volume, NANCY HALE: ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF A LOST AMERICAN MASTER (2012). . Phong Nguyen is editor of Pleiades and author of PAGES FOR THE TEXTBOOK OF ALTERNATE HISTORY (2014) and MEMORY SICKNESS AND OTHER STORIES (2011). Nguyen teaches fiction and American literature at the University of Central Missouri, where he lives with his wife, the artist Sarah Nguyen
Suppressing the inclination to self-ruin Thomas F. Dillingham [Full and open disclosure: I have been acquainted with the author, Phong Nguyen, for a number of years, have been aware that he was working on this book, and have awaited its publication with great curiosity and high expectations.]On some simple level, almost everyone at some time in life will constr. Roger Brunyate said Varied Degrees of Success. This is a novel, of course, or more like a set of stories. The publisher proclaims that all the characters are entirely fictitious, yet they have well-known names: Cheops, Siddhartha, Plato, Jesus, Joan of Arc, Columbus, John Smith, Ben Franklin, Napoleon, Hitler, Ho Chi Minh, Einstein, George W. Bus. "Great read with an interesting spin" according to Brian P. Reed. There are several alternative fiction books out that there explore "what if" scenarios, delving more into societal impact if events were changed. Phong Nguyen focuses more on the individuals involved in shaping historical events and what could have been if they actually attained the goals they initia
At critical moments in world history, every political, spiritual, and cultural leader foresaw a different destiny. Fiction. It is out of their failures that history itself is made. Columbus planned a Western sea route to Asia; Hitler applied to art school twice; Joan of Arc prophesied that she would become a mother. But what if the history-makers succeeded in the fulfillment of their best-laid plans? In PAGES FROM THE TEXTBOOK OF ALTERNATE HISTORY, Phong Nguyen explores a myriad of pasts in which these icons of history made a different choice, and got what they wished for.. Asian American Studies