Literary Nonfiction. Travel Writing. Memoir. "It's exhilerating to see a woman seize the boy form and make it her own. Roberta Allen does just that in AMAZON DREAM, a chronicle of her misadventures in the Peruvian jungle. This isn't an account of conquering or even comprehending the exotic Other, it's about insects, sweat, and Shipibo Indian culture, and what right a Manhattan artist has, if any, to approach it. Allen's uncertainties about her role aren't big-deal confessions, just honest responses to circumstance"—Katherine Dieckman, Voice Literary Supplement

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Roberta Allen is the author of eight books, including two collections of short fiction, The Traveling Woman (Vehicle Editions, 1986) and CERTAIN PEOPLE (Coffee House Press, 2007); a novella in short short stories, THE DAUGHTER (Autonomedia, 1992); a memoir, AMAZON DREAM (City Lights Publishers, 1992); the novel THE DREAMING GIRL (Painted Leaf Press, 2000, and Ellipsis Press, 2011); and several writing guides. Allen was on the faculty of The New School for many years and has also taught at Columbia University. She was a Tennessee Williams Fellow in Fiction in 1998. An established visual artist, she has exhibited worldwide, with work in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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