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Synopsis
By Tillie Olsen - 6x9" 306 pages , "class, color, sex." - Copyright 1965, 1972, 1978, stated First printing, cover price $10.95, published by Delacorte Press.
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About the Author
Activist and author Tillie Olsen is best known for her prize-winning fiction Tell Me a Riddle and Yonnondio: From the Thirties. She taught at MIT, Stanford, and Amherst. Olsen is an recipient of an Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Literature from the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
Review
"What Tillie Olsen has to say . . . is of primary importance to those who want to understand how art is generated or subverted and to those trying to create it themselves." ―New York Times Book Review
"Tillie Olsen helps those of us condemned to silence―the poor, the racial minorities, the women―find our voices." ―Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior
"[Silences is] 'the Bible.' I constantly return to it." ―Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street
"As much as I learned from Tell Me a Riddle, I learned even more from Tillie's landmark classic and original essay Silences: When Writers Don't Write, which I read while living in Cambridge in the early '70's, raising a small daughter alone and struggling to write myself." ―Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple
"Silences helped me to keep my sanity many a day." ―Gloria Naylor, author of Mama Day
"Silences will, like A Room of One's Own, be quoted where there is talk of the circumstances in which literature is possible." ―Adrienne Rich, author of Diving into the Wreck
"What Tillie Olsen has to say . . . is of primary importance to those who want to understand how art is generated or subverted and to those trying to create it themselves." New York Times Book Review
"Tillie Olsen helps those of us condemned to silence the poor, the racial minorities, the women find our voices." Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior
"[Silences is] 'the Bible.' I constantly return to it." Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street
"As much as I learned from Tell Me a Riddle, I learned even more from Tillie's landmark classic and original essay Silences: When Writers Don't Write, which I read while living in Cambridge in the early '70's, raising a small daughter alone and struggling to write myself." Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple
"Silences helped me to keep my sanity many a day." Gloria Naylor, author of Mama Day
"Silences will, like A Room of One's Own, be quoted where there is talk of the circumstances in which literature is possible." Adrienne Rich, author of Diving into the Wreck
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Seller: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Hardback. Condition: Fair. First published in 1978, Silences single-handedly revolutionized the literary canon. In this classic work, now back in print, Olsen broke open the study of literature and discovered a lost continent--the writing of women and working-class people. From the excavated testimony of authors' letters and diaries we learn the many ways the creative spirit, especially in those disadvantaged by gender, class and race, can be silenced. Olsen recounts the torments of Melville, the crushing weight of criticism on Thomas Hardy, the shame that brought Willa Cather to a dead halt, and struggles of Virginia Woolf, Olsen's heroine and greatest exemplar of a writer who confronted the forces that would silence her. This 25th-anniversary edition includes Olsen's now infamous reading lists of forgotten authors and a new introduction and author preface. Seller Inventory # 00106687743
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Silences
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ISBN 10: 0440079004
ISBN 13: 9780440079002
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Hardback. Condition: Fair. First published in 1978, Silences single-handedly revolutionized the literary canon. In this classic work, now back in print, Olsen broke open the study of literature and discovered a lost continent--the writing of women and working-class people. From the excavated testimony of authors' letters and diaries we learn the many ways the creative spirit, especially in those disadvantaged by gender, class and race, can be silenced. Olsen recounts the torments of Melville, the crushing weight of criticism on Thomas Hardy, the shame that brought Willa Cather to a dead halt, and struggles of Virginia Woolf, Olsen's heroine and greatest exemplar of a writer who confronted the forces that would silence her. This 25th-anniversary edition includes Olsen's now infamous reading lists of forgotten authors and a new introduction and author preface. Seller Inventory # CIN0440079004A
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0440079004I4N01
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Condition: acceptable. Dust jacket is worn with tears and taping. Pages are sunned. Item has staining. Hardcover. Seller Inventory # COBV.0440079004.A
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Silences
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ISBN 10: 0440079004
ISBN 13: 9780440079002
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Silences
Published by
Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1978
ISBN 10: 0440079004
ISBN 13: 9780440079002
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good spine slant in Very good nicked little edge-chipped dust jacket. First Edition.*. Seller Inventory # nt923sd0084