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Writing in an Age of Silence

Autor Sara Paretsky
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 mai 2007

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In Writing in an Age of Silence, Sara Paretsky explores the traditions of political and literary dissent that have informed her life and work, against the unparalleled repression of free speech and thought in the USA today.

In tracing the writer’s difficult journey from silence to speech, Paretsky turns to her childhood youth in rural Kansas, and brilliantly evokes Chicago—the city with which she has become indelibly associated—from her arrival during the civil-rights struggle in the mid-1960s to her most extraordinary literary creation, the south-side detective V I Warshawski. Paretsky traces the emergence of V I Warshawski from the shadows of the loner detectives that stalk the mean streets of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler’s novels, and in the process explores American individualism, the failure of the American dream and the resulting dystopia.

Both memoir and meditation, Writing in an Age of Silence is a beautiful, compelling exploration of the writer’s art and daunting responsibility in the face of the assault on US civil liberties post-9/11.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781844671229
ISBN-10: 1844671224
Pagini: 138
Dimensiuni: 146 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Verso Books
Colecția Verso
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Sara Paretsky is the author of the bestselling V.I. Warshawski novels, including, most recently, Bleeding Kansas. Paretsky is the winner of many awards, including the Cartier Diamond Dagger award for lifetime achievement from the British Crime Writers’ Association. She lives in Chicago.

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“A riveting journey into the makings of modern-day America and of Sara Paretsky’s writing. At times deeply moving and at others furious, Writing in an Age of Silence is never less than utterly fascinating.”—Gillian Slovo

“Not only is Writing in an Age of Silence a captivating account of a writer’s life, it’s also an acute and defiant refutation of Bush & Company’s theft of our democratic freedoms.”—Jim Hightower

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