Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family

Informationen zum Autor Peter Dimock has long worked in publishing-at Random House, and as senior executive editor for history and political science at Columbia University Press, where he worked with authors including Angela Davis, Eric Hobsbawm, Toni Morrison, and Amartya Sen. His first novel, "A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family", was published by Dalkey Archive Press in 1998. Klappentext In what is both a brilliantly written investigation of family relationships and a scathing attack on the political rhetoric that guides American politics! Dimock creates a diary-like novel in which the narrator instructs his children in the family's sordid history. Zusammenfassung Hundreds of novels have explored the war in Vietnam. This is the first to explore the world of the architects of that war, and it cuts terribly close to home. Dimock brilliantly exposes the pained heart of a single family and offers a vision of what their way of life still costs us all. His book raises with startling freshness ancient yet urgent questions about relations between image, word, and act.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Dimock, Dimock Peter
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.1999
• EAN: 9781564782106
• ISBN: 978-1-56478-210-6
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: American Literature (Dalkey Ar; American Literature S.; American Literature (Dalkey Ar; American Literature; American Literature (Dalkey Archive)
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature