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Item Details
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SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
PROPHECY AND THE AMERICAN VOICE |
| By: |
Greil Marcus |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571221572 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571221578 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
2 August, 2007 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
Untangles the story of America's covenant with itself - the idealism, horror, eloquence and violence integral to its founding narratives. This account moves back and forth between culture and politics, and with deep dives into the work of a few artists who strikingly dramatise the challenge America 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 - 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 dramatise 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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