Sara Paretsky
Hardcover | Pages: 138 pages Rating: 3.88 | 299 Users | 70 Reviews
Identify Of Books Writing In An Age Of Silence
| Title | : | Writing In An Age Of Silence |
| Author | : | Sara Paretsky |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 138 pages |
| Published | : | May 17th 2007 by Verso |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. Writing. Essays. Language. History |
Interpretation As Books Writing In An Age Of Silence
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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| Original Title: | Writing In An Age Of Silence |
| ISBN: | 1844671229 (ISBN13: 9781844671229) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Autobiography (2007) |
Rating Of Books Writing In An Age Of Silence
Ratings: 3.88 From 299 Users | 70 ReviewsComment On Of Books Writing In An Age Of Silence
Writing in an Age of Silence is promoted as a memoir, however, its both more and less than that. Paretsky writes the very popular V I Warshawski detective series. V I and Paretsky are feminists and arent afraid of that word, at a time when most women eschew it. I love V I. Even when shes a bit strident, I appreciate and agree with what she says. (Besides, Ive been known to be a bit strident myself.) Sara Paretsky, however, is not strident in Writing in an Age of Silence; shes witty and heartfeltThe first half - about Sara's childhood and how she came to write was quite interesting, but it was in the second half that this book came into its own... I found her writing on free speech and publishing very insightful.
I felt ashamed reading this. I take for granted the advances that have been made to reduce sexism and it takes a message from a woman like Ms. Paretsky to wake me up. I wish there was more to this book (her Jewish brother became a Dominican friar?!?!) but it is powerful and depressing and inspiring, all at once.What a woman.
Sara Paretsky is of course a well known author. I've read many of her VI Warshawski crime novels. I had expected this memoir to be about writing, that's what the title suggests anyway. Instead, it's a highly political book with several essays on women's rights - including a passionate defense of Roe vs Wade - and an even more passionate rant against the Patriot Act. From her books, Paretsky's liberal views were pretty clear, but she outlines them here even more clearly. In itself, that's fine,
Paretsky is a feminist and a free-speech advocate. Based on the title, we perhaps expected this to be a bit more confessional and also less discreet in some areas; yet we loved it for its passion and relevancy.
This is a compelling, if meandering, assortment of reflections on racism and terrorism, feminism and freedom. Author Sara Paretsky has witnessed some of the most extreme hatred in modern American society, and transcended sexist repression in her own life to achieve a college education and become a writer.Growing up in Lawrence, Kansas, Paretsky learned that terrorism happens in the United States, where it is perpetrated by Americans against Americans. For a fifteen-month span in 1970-1971, there
I thought it was well written, interesting, historical, political and revealing of how she developed the character V.I. Warshawski.
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