In this powerful new book, Sara explores the traditions of political and
literary dissent that have informed her life and work, against the
unparallelled repression of free speech and thought in the US today. In
tracing the writer’s difficult journey from silence to speech, she turns
to her childhood and 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 compelling exploration of the writer's art and daunting
responsibility in the face of the assault on US civil liberties
post-9/11.
Suzi puts this book on the top of everyone's "must read" stack!
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