American Silence

by Zeese Papanikolas

Book Overview

In American Silence, a complement to his previous study Trickster in the Land of Dreams, Zeese Papanikolas investigates a number of significant American cultural artifacts and the lives of their makers. For Papanikolas, both the private failures and public successes of Clarence King, Henry Adams, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, and Hank Williams resonate with silences. These silences--absences and omissions--put them...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803237561
• ISBN13: 9780803237568
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"