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Title:

Writing on the edge : great contemporary writers on the front line of crisis / a book by Tom Craig ; photography by Tom Craig ; edited by Dan Crowe ; [essays by] Martin Amis ... [et al.]

Publisher:

Rizzoli International Publications in association with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins sans frontières,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Médecins sans frontières (Association)
Humanitarian assistance--Developing countries.
Medical assistance--Developing countries.
Disaster relief--Developing countries.
War relief--Developing countries.
Médecins sans frontières (Association)
Relief Work--Personal Narratives.
Developing Countries--Personal Narratives.
Disasters--Personal Narratives.
Voluntary Health Agencies--Personal Narratives.
War--Personal Narratives.

Other Authors:

Craig, Tom.
Crowe, Dan, 1972-

Contents:

Introduction: slugs in a jar / Tom Craig -- Armenia: paradise lost / DBC Pierre -- Assam: the nowhere clans / Hari Kunzru -- Burundi: in another life / Tracy Chevalier -- Cambodia: the paradox of progress / Jim Crace -- Chad: the intolerable and the unbearable / A.A. Gill -- Cali, Columbia: the return of death / Martin Amis -- Congo-Brazzaville: quietly in hope / Joanne Harris -- Morocco: the pursuit of happiness / Ali Smith -- Palestine: how to manage the effects of a military attack / Daniel Day-Lewis -- Sierra Leone: cutting and tearing / by Minette Walters -- Sudan-Nuba: the geography of hope / Jon McGregor -- Uganda: the good doctors / Damon Galgut -- The Ukraine: are we leaving already? / Michel Faber -- Uzbekistan: disco shoes and a missing sea / Danny Boyle.

ISBN:

0847832910 (alk. paper)
9780847832910 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)426793747

LCCN:

2009044208

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)