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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Verso Books
Publication date
May 1, 2007
Pages
192
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781844671229
ISBN-10
1844671224
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.75 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.70 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$22.95
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A revelatory exploration of the traditions of political and literary dissent that informed the life and work of the author of the V.I. Warshawski novels describes her arrival in civil-rights-era Chicago and her observations about the assault on civil liberties since September 11, 2001.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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 writerâs difficult journey from silence to speech, Paretsky turns to her childhood youth in rural Kansas, and brilliantly evokes Chicagoâthe city with which she has become indelibly associatedâfrom 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 Chandlerâs 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 writerâs art and daunting responsibility in the face of the assault on US civil liberties post-9/11.
In tracing the writerâs difficult journey from silence to speech, Paretsky turns to her childhood youth in rural Kansas, and brilliantly evokes Chicagoâthe city with which she has become indelibly associatedâfrom 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 Chandlerâs 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 writerâs art and daunting responsibility in the face of the assault on US civil liberties post-9/11.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Verso Books (May 1, 2007)
9781844671229 | details & prices | 192 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $22.95
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Paperback
With Sara Paretsky |
2 reprint edition from Verso Books (May 5, 2009)
9781844673773 | details & prices | 138 pages | 5.00 × 7.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $12.95
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