A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family (a first printing)

Dimock, Peter

ISBN 10: 0413774147 / ISBN 13: 9780413774149

Published by Methuen Publishing Ltd,uk, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family (a first printing)
• Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd,uk
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0413774147
• ISBN 13: 9780413774149
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

Hundreds of novels have explored the war in Vietnam. This is the first to explore the world of the architects of that war, and it cuts terribly close to home. Dimock brilliantly exposes the pained heart of a single family and offers a vision of what their way of life still costs us all. His book raises with startling freshness ancient yet urgent questions about relations between image, word, and act.

About the Author

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.