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Writing in an age of silence / Sara Paretsky.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Delhi : Women Unlimited an associate of Kali for Women, c2007Description: xx, 138 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9788188965427 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.54 PAR 23 014487
Contents:
1 Wild Women Out of Control, or How I Became a Writer 1 2 The King and I 27 3 Not Angel, Not Monster, Just Human 51 4 The iPod and Sam Spade 80 5 Truth, Lies, and Duct Tape 107.
Summary: "In Writing in An Age of Silence, Sara Paretsky explores the traditions of political and literary dissent that have formed 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 and youth in rural Kansas, and 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 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 an exploration of the writer's art and daunting responsibility in the face of the assault on US civil liberties post-9/​11."--BOOK JACKET.
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1 Wild Women Out of Control, or How I Became a Writer 1
2 The King and I 27
3 Not Angel, Not Monster, Just Human 51
4 The iPod and Sam Spade 80
5 Truth, Lies, and Duct Tape 107.

"In Writing in An Age of Silence, Sara Paretsky explores the traditions of political and literary dissent that have formed 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 and youth in rural Kansas, and 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 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 an exploration of the writer's art and daunting responsibility in the face of the assault on US civil liberties post-9/​11."--BOOK JACKET.

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