The shape of things to come
prophecy and the American voice
1st ed.
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Publication
2006 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
80,000 words, Guess
Page Count
320 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3416865M
- ISBN-139780374104382
- ISBN-100374104387
- OCLC Control Number62430759
- OCLC Control Numbershapeofthingstoc00marc
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2005033139
- LibraryThing1474410
- Goodreads78280
Classifications
- DDC973.01/9
- LCCE169.1 .M259 2006
Description
"In The Shape of Things to Come, Greil Marcus traces America's fable of self-invention from its Puritan beginnings to its successive retelling in the work of contemporary artists as diverse as Philip Roth and David Lynch. While artists rather than politicians struggle to define what the nation is and what it is for, Marcus opens up the ferment of America as an idea and as a story."--Jacket.
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