In Pursuit of Silence by George Prochnik

In Pursuit of Silence by George Prochnik

A brilliant, far-reaching exploration of the frontiers of noise and silence, and the growing war between them.

Between iPods, music-blasting restaurants, earsplitting sports stadiums, and endless air and road traffic, the place for quiet in our lives grows smaller by the day. In Pursuit of Silence gives context to our increasingly desperate sense that noise pollution is, in a very real way, an environmental catastrophe. Traveling across the country and meeting and listening to a host of incredible characters, including doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks, activists, educators, marketers, and aggrieved citizens, George Prochnik examines why we began to be so loud as a society, and what it is that gets lost when we can no longer find quiet.

The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World, George Prochnik's most recent book, won the National Jewish Book Award for Biography/Memoir in 2014 and was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize in the United Kingdom. In Search of Silence: Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise (2010) and Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam, and the Mission of American Psychology (2006) are two other books by Prochnik. He is the editor-at-large for Cabinet magazine and has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Bookforum, and the LA Review of Books.

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ISBN 13	9780767931212
ISBN 10	0767931211
Title	In Pursuit of Silence
Author	George Prochnik
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2011-04-05
Number of pages	352
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