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George Anderson: Notes for a Love Song in Imperial Time
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Description for George Anderson: Notes for a Love Song in Imperial Time
Paperback. Series: American Literature Series. Num Pages: 956 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 205 x 146 x 12. Weight in Grams: 216.
Theo Fales is a one-time historian turned book editor who specializes in ghostwriting the memoirs of leading American policy-makers. For over twenty-five years, Theo has been helping retired generals and CIA directors justify their decisions in the first-person. One day, however, hearing a song at a colleague’s memorial service, Theo has a vision: he senses, in the music, a completely different way to live. He becomes obsessed by a need to align musical time with the metre of his own life and prose. Theo’s method opens onto two seemingly contradictory interior landscapes: one, a rage of identification with a college ... Read more
Theo Fales is a one-time historian turned book editor who specializes in ghostwriting the memoirs of leading American policy-makers. For over twenty-five years, Theo has been helping retired generals and CIA directors justify their decisions in the first-person. One day, however, hearing a song at a colleague’s memorial service, Theo has a vision: he senses, in the music, a completely different way to live. He becomes obsessed by a need to align musical time with the metre of his own life and prose. Theo’s method opens onto two seemingly contradictory interior landscapes: one, a rage of identification with a college ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Series
American Literature Series
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564788016
SKU
V9781564788016
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Ref
99-15
About Dimock
Peter Dimock has long worked in publishing-at Random House, and as senior executive editor for history and political science at Columbia University Press, where he worked with authors including Angela Davis, Eric Hobsbawm, Toni Morrison, and Amartya Sen. His first novel, A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family, was published by Dalkey Archive Press in 1998.
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