Background
Mojtabai, Ann Grace was born on June 8, 1937 in New York City. Daughter of Robert and Naomi (Friedman) Alpher.
(Amarillo, a Bible-belt city in the Texas Panhandle, is th...)
Amarillo, a Bible-belt city in the Texas Panhandle, is the home of Pantex, the final assembly plant for all nuclear weapons in the United States. Through the microcosm of this city, A. G. Mujtabai takes a hard look at our nation and our habits of nuclear accommodation.
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(In 1982, with Cold War anxieties running high, A.G. Mojta...)
In 1982, with Cold War anxieties running high, A.G. Mojtabai set out for Amarillo, Texas, home of Pantex, the final assembly plant for all nuclear weapons in the United States. Through the lens of this particular city, she sought to focus on our adaptation as a nation to the threat of nuclear war. Her interviews began with Pantex workers assured of both the necessity and the safety of the work that they did, and in the steady, beneficent, advance of science. Working alongside them were fundamentalist Christians who believed in inevitable catastrophe, and who testified to quite another, blessed, assurance of Divine rescue from the holocaust to come. This startling juxtaposition of apocalyptic and technocratic world views was not confined to Pantex. Blessed Assurance brilliantly examines this clash of spiritual visions as it presented itself repeatedly in the streets, churches, and corporate offices of Amarillo. The voices that you hear in this book are those of the people of Amarillo speaking for themselves. Their narratives powerfully reveal their hopes and fears, their sense of the meaning of history, and the future of the human race. Blessed Assurance won the year's Lillian Smith Award for the best book about the South in 1986.
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( In the middle of the night, somewhere in Oklahoma—or is...)
In the middle of the night, somewhere in Oklahoma—or is it Missouri?—a bus hurtles down an anonymous American highway. Its passengers, among them two children traveling on their own, a retired salesman, an unwed teenage mother, an unemployed chemist, and the driver who ferries and broods over all of them, are in the middle of their journeys. Soon, two of the passengers will be lost, and then the bus itself will lose its way. The open road and, before that, the open frontier have long been part of the American romance, cherished features of the nation's traditional vision of itself. In her latest novel, A. G. Mojtabai stands this tradition on its head. Instead of the expansive thrust into unknown territory, the camaraderie of the open road, adventure, and the joys of vagabondage, we witness constriction, isolation, and fear. Instead of freedom, we find people fleeing from coast to coast in search of home and the ever-beckoning, ever-retreating promise of a better life. Richly drawn, evocative, and thought-provoking, All That Road Going is a challenging new departure from the road novel canon.
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Mojtabai, Ann Grace was born on June 8, 1937 in New York City. Daughter of Robert and Naomi (Friedman) Alpher.
Bachelor of Arts Philosophy, Antioch College, 1958; Master of Arts in Philosophy, Columbia University, 1968; Master of Science in Library Science, Columbia University, 1970.
Lecturer philosophy Hunter College, City University of New York, 1966-1968. Library City College of New York, 1970-1976. Fellow Radcliffe Institute Indiana Study, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1976-1978.
Briggs-Copeland lecturer on English Harvard University, 1978-1983. Writer-in-residence University Tulsa, 1983—2005, Yaddo Foundation, Saratoga, New York, 1975, 76.
(Amarillo, a Bible-belt city in the Texas Panhandle, is th...)
( In the middle of the night, somewhere in Oklahoma—or is...)
(In 1982, with Cold War anxieties running high, A.G. Mojta...)
(NY 1974 1st Simon Schuster. 8vo., hardcover. Fine in VG DJ.)
Member of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Mark Twain Society, Texas Institute Letters, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Fathollah Mojtabai, April 27, 1960 (divorced 1966). Children: Chitra, Ramin.