Zero Decibels
The Quest for Absolute Silence
$37.05
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
18 April 2014
Summary
Have our noise-soaked lives driven us mad? And is absolute silence an impossible goal–or the one thing that can save us? A lively tale of one man’s quest to find the grail of total quiet.
“I don’t know at what point noise became intolerable for me,” George Michelsen Foy writes as he recalls standing on a subway platform in Manhattan, hands clamped firmly over his ears, face contorted in pain. But only then does Foy realize how overwhelmed he is by the city’s noise and vow to …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781416599609 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1416599606 |
| Author: | George Michelsen Foy |
| Publisher: | Scribner Book Company |
| Imprint: | Scribner Book Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 18 April 2014 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 147mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“George Foy has written the perfect antidote for our increasingly noisy age. “Zero Decibels” is meditative, witty, lyrical, and fascinating. Every page is a revelation.”
–Alan Burdick, author of “Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion”
George Michelsen Foy
George Michelsen Foy is the author of Run the Storm, Finding North: How Navigation Makes Us Human and Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence, as well as twelve critically acclaimed novels. He was a recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship in fiction and his articles, reviews, and stories have been published by Rolling Stone, The Boston Globe, Harper’s, The New York Times, and Men’s Journal, among others. A former officer on British coastal freighters, he teaches creative writing at NYU, holds a US Coast Guard coastal captain’s license, and divides his time between Cape Cod and New York.
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