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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
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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