Sleeping Among Sheep Under a Starry Sky
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Sleeping Among Sheep Under a Starry Sky by Wallace Shawn
'Lovely, hilarious, and seriously thought-provoking.' - Toni Morrison
"Wallace Shawn is a bracing antidote to the op-ed dreariness of political and artistic journalism in the WestHe takes you back to the days when intellectuals had the wit and concentration to formulate great questions-and to make the reader want to answer them." * DAVID HARE *
"Endlessly curious, playful, and subtle, Wallace Shawn represents, in our opinion-addled age, a vanishing ideal of the cosmopolitan sensibility. These wide-ranging essays are irresistible in their unique mix of compassion and acuity, moral passion and indifference to dogma." * Pankaj Mishra, author of Run and Hide and Age of Anger *
“Wallace Shawn’s essays are both powerful and riveting. To have such a gentle and incisive soul willing to say what others may be afraid to is considerably refreshing.” * MICHAEL MOORE *
“Wallace Shawn writes in a style that is deceptively simple, profoundly thoughtful, fiercely honest. His vocabulary is pungent, his wit delightful, his ideas provocative.” * HOWARD ZINN *
“Lovely, hilarious, and seriously thought-provoking.” * TONI MORRISON *
“WS’s manner is conversational but informed. He has a powerful sense, both as an actor and political essayist, of the extent to which our better selves are constrained by lines that have been written for us; by received ideas, the comforting deceptions of class, agency and so on. Behind most of these essays are questions about the unfairness of life to which the author responds -- fairly, I think -- without answers, only further questions of his own.” * Will Eaves, author of Murmur *
"Endlessly curious, playful, and subtle, Wallace Shawn represents, in our opinion-addled age, a vanishing ideal of the cosmopolitan sensibility. These wide-ranging essays are irresistible in their unique mix of compassion and acuity, moral passion and indifference to dogma." * Pankaj Mishra, author of Run and Hide and Age of Anger *
“Wallace Shawn’s essays are both powerful and riveting. To have such a gentle and incisive soul willing to say what others may be afraid to is considerably refreshing.” * MICHAEL MOORE *
“Wallace Shawn writes in a style that is deceptively simple, profoundly thoughtful, fiercely honest. His vocabulary is pungent, his wit delightful, his ideas provocative.” * HOWARD ZINN *
“Lovely, hilarious, and seriously thought-provoking.” * TONI MORRISON *
“WS’s manner is conversational but informed. He has a powerful sense, both as an actor and political essayist, of the extent to which our better selves are constrained by lines that have been written for us; by received ideas, the comforting deceptions of class, agency and so on. Behind most of these essays are questions about the unfairness of life to which the author responds -- fairly, I think -- without answers, only further questions of his own.” * Will Eaves, author of Murmur *
Wallace Shawn is an American playwright, actor, and essayist.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781787703636 |
| ISBN 10 | 1787703630 |
| Title | Sleeping Among Sheep Under a Starry Sky |
| Author | Wallace Shawn |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Europa Editions (UK) Ltd |
| Year published | 2022-08-18 |
| Number of pages | 195 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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