Anna Deveare Smith's award-winning one-woman shows were borne of her uniquely brilliant ability to listen. In
Talk to Me she applies her rare talent to the language of political power in America.
Believing that character and language are inextricably bound, Smith sets out to discern the essence of America by listening to its people and trying to capture its politics. To that end she travels to some of America's most conspicuous places, like the presidential conventions of 1996, and some of its darkest corners, like a women's prison in Maryland. And along the way she interviews everyone from janitors to murderers to Bill Clinton himself. Memoir, social commentary, meditation on language, this book is as vastly ambitious as it is compellingly unique.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 10/16/2001
ISBN: 9780385721745
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.28w x 0.74d
Review Citations: Black Issues Book Review 05/01/2006 pg. 15