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Title	:	Writing In An Age Of Silence
Author	:	Sara Paretsky
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 138 pages
Published	:	May 17th 2007 by Verso
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. Writing. Essays. Language. History

Writing In An Age Of Silence

Sara Paretsky

Hardcover | Pages: 138 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 299 Users | 70 Reviews

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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)

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A wonderful memoir of a courageous writer!

I hadnt previously read anything by Paretsky, yet that didnt affect my experience of these passionate, though a bit repetitive, memoir-essays, not even when she talks of how her famous detective V I Warshawski grew out of her discovery of Raymond Chandler; her opposition to his femme fatale in The Big Sleep; a roommates near-death experience after an abortion and Paretsky's own time on the South Side of Chicago during the summer when MLK, Jr. was also there. Eventually Chicago became Paretskys

The 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.

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 heartfelt

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

Sara Paretsky is, without a doubt, my favorite detective novelist. I've always thought her books were smart, rich, engaging on so many levels. With this interconnected set of essays (really a memoir), Paretsky reveals where all that rich, smart stuff comes from in her V I Warshawski novels. Her essays detail her childhood in rural Kansas, her move to Chicago, her involvement in community organizing, her PhD in 19th-century American history/religion, and her outrage over the suppression of free