Politics and the American Language: Reviews, Rants, and Commentary, 2011-2018 - Couverture souple

O'Rourke, William

 
9781566494038: Politics and the American Language: Reviews, Rants, and Commentary, 2011-2018
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1566494036 ISBN 13 : 9781566494038
Editeur : Welcome Rain Publishers,US, 2020

Synopsis

This new collection is William O'Rourke's third volume of a diverse mixture of long and short articles and it extends his reputation as a brilliant social historian and curmudgeonly contrarian. More political than his previous two volumes (Signs of the Literary Times, 1993; Confessions of a Guilty Freelancer, 2012), it additionally serves as an illuminating memoir of his literary generation. These provocative pieces analyze the contemporary turbulent period, from the Obama years to the dawn of the Trump era.

O'Rourke is an acclaimed novelist (Idle Hands) and nonfiction author (The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left) and he has never been shy of tackling big subjects, which he manages with acuity and finesse. He turns his perceptive vision often toward literary subjects, the ongoing abuse of language, but always places the books he discusses in a broader cultural and political context. His depictions of both lettered and political figures, such as Kurt Vonnegut, Daniel Berrigan, Donald Trump, Ken Burns, Bernie Sanders and Flannery O'Connor are fresh and original. An informative, startling, and entertaining collection.

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À propos de l?auteur

WILLIAM O'ROURKE is the author of four novels, The Meekness of Isaac, Idle Hands, Criminal Tendencies, and Notts, and six works of nonfiction. He was a weekly columnist for five years for the Chicago Sun-Times and was the founding director of the University of Notre Dame's graduate creative writing program and is currently the Editor Emeritus of the Notre Dame Review.

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Éditeur
Welcome Rain Publishers,US
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1566494036
ISBN 13 
9781566494038
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
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