Dictionary of the Undoing
$26.87
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
13 January 2020
Summary
For John Freeman - literary critic, essayist, editor, poet and ‘one of the preeminent book people of our time’ - it is a rare moment when words are not enough. But in the wake of the election of 2016, words felt useless, even indulgent. Action was the only reasonable response. He took to the streets in protest, and the sense of community and collective conviction felt right. But the assaults continued - on citizens’ rights and long-held compacts, on the core principles of our culture and civi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472154774 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472154770 |
| Author: | John Freeman |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 13 January 2020 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 130mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
”[John Freeman] offers an alphabet of hope and action in this spare, eloquent meditation … The representative words, including resonant headings such as citizen, justice, and rage, introduce extended definitions that are sobering, probing, and precise … A protest, a poem, and a plea, Freeman’s utterly original manifesto is a pocket manual for informed political dissent and a must-read for all thinking citizens.” * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *
About The Author
John Freeman
John Freeman is the editor of Freeman’s, a literary annual of new writing, and executive editor of the Literary Hub. His books include How to Read a Novelist and The Tyranny of E-mail, as well as Tales of Two Americas, an anthology of new writing about inequality in the U.S. today. Maps, his debut collection of poems, was published in 2017. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The New York Times. The former editor of Granta, he is Writer in Residence at New York University.
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