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Item Details
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THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
PROPHECY AND THE AMERICAN VOICE |
| By: |
Greil Marcus |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£16.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571221564 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571221561 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
17 August, 2006 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
Aims to untangle the story of America's covenant with itself - and the idealism, horror, eloquence and violence integral to its founding narratives. This title presents an account that moves back and forth between culture and politics, with dives into the work of few artists who strikingly dramatize the challenge US poses to each of its citizens. |
| Synopsis: |
In The Shape of Things to Come, Greil Marcus untangles the story of America's covenant with itself -and the idealism, horror, eloquence and violence integral to its founding narratives. In a thrilling account that moves back and forth between culture and politics, and with deep dives into the work of a few artists who strikingly dramatize the challenge America poses to each of its citizens - Herman Melville and Raymond Chandler, Philip Roth and David Lynch, Bill Pullman and Sheryl Lee, David Thomas of Pere Ubu and Allen Ginsberg - Marcus captures a story that is constantly being remade and retold, in voices at once paranoid and sardonic, inspiring and terrifying. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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