Description: A new copy. Pages clean, crisp and unmarked. The dust jacket has a blade cut (transparency tape) and along the cover spine carefully repaired. No cover wear. Images on listing, are of this book.HARDCOVER___________ As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking for almost a year, retreating into herself and communicating only when absolutely necessary. As an adult, she became fascinated by the limits of language and in Unspeakable she asks what makes us silent.From the inexpressible trauma of trench warfare and the aftermath of natural disaster to the taboo of coming out, Shawcross explores how and why words fail us. From the mountains of Nepal to New York’s theatre district she travels the world meeting people who constantly wrestle with language. She studies the work of George Oppen, a poet who couldn’t write a line for twenty-five years, interviews Eve Ensler whose play The Vagina Monologues gave voice to the truths of female sexuality, and meets the founders of The Samaritans who have been listening silently to those in need since the 1950s.A beguiling mix of memoir, history, literary criticism and investigative journalism, Unspeakable is a moving and unprecedented study of the power of silence.
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Book Title: Unspeakable: The Things We Cannot Say Hardcover by Harriet Shawcr
Book Series: Unspeakable: The Things We Cannot Say Hardcover by Harriet Shawcr
Original Language: English
Item Length: 8.7in
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 1.3in
Personalized: No
Features: Abridged, Dust Jacket
Topic: Communication Studies, Personal Memoirs, General
Item Width: 5.7in
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: Canongate Books
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Inscribed: No
Edition: Collector's Edition
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Novel
Literary Movement: Enlightenment, Modernism
Era: 2020s
Author: Harriet Shawcross
Genre: Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography, Language Arts & Disciplines
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 16.9 Oz
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
