Living on the Edge, edited by John Coyne, contains seventeen stories by Peace Corps authors writing about the Third World — Mark Brazaitis, Kathleen Coskran, Coyne, Eileen Drew, Leslie Simmonds Ekstrom, John Givens, Marla Kay Houghteling, Mark Jacobs, Karl Luntta, Terry Marshall, Marnie Mueller, George Packer, Joan Richter, Norman Rush, Bob Shacochis, Melanie Sumner, and Paul Theroux. All these stories reflect the impact the Peace Corps experience had on former volunteers who write across cultures in the literary tradition of Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, and Paul Bowles.

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