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Writing in an Age of Silence (Paperback)

by Sara Paretsky (Author)
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  • Paperback: 138 pages
  • Publisher: Verso; 2nd edition (11 May 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1844673774
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844673773
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 57,284 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This poignant and compelling personal testimony explains both the influences which made her a writer and the kind of writer she became... both a testimony and a polemic; it is one woman's voice among many, but it is a powerful one. --P D James, Spectator

A furious, clear and passionate account of her life, Chicago s history, the nature of the crime novel, and the US repression of free speech --Guardian

An illuminating memoir and a courageous exploration of threats to freedom of expression --Scotsman, Books of the Year

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In this powerful book, 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 US today. In tracing the writers difficult journey from silence to speech, she turns to her childhood and youth in rural Kansas, and brilliantly evokes Chicagothe city with which she has become indelibly associatedfrom 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 Hammetts and Raymond Chandlers 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 compelling exploration of the writers art and daunting responsibility in the face of the assault on US civil liberties post-9/11.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Utterly Compulsive, 16 July 2007
By AHW Rea "Slioch" (Cumbria, UK) - See all my reviews
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I came to this book as a confirmed fan of Paretsky's work. Somehow I felt I was doing so out of duty, rather than an expectation of pleasure.
In a way, I was right-there is little pleasure to be taken from reading this book, unless it is the pleasure that comes from knowing a little more about the background of and influences upon a favourite author.

Straightforward pleasure as joy, as laughs? No. This is a challenging work, not a fun read in any conventional way. Rather Peretsky sets out in a series of relatively short essays, to describe how her voice as an author [and as a woman] came to be formed and to be heard.

In doing so she covers a lot of ground in contemporary American history-from Martin Luther King Jnr in Chicago to the issues facing a writer of liberal outlook in Bush's US. Along the way, we learn of her bleak upbringing in Kansas and her involvement with the Womens' Movement.

But it is with the development and use of a writer's voice that we are most concerned in this work, and, of course, with the obverse: the voicelessness that the disadvantaged have always faced in society and which now threatens [via the so-called Patriot Act amongst other factors] to silence even the vocal and the privileged.

I cannot commend this book too highly. I read it in one sitting, and then again, an essay at a time. It handsomely repays its reader with the privilege of insight into the mind of a significant figure in American popular culture.
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