Talk to Me: Listening Between the Lines - Hardcover

Smith, Anna Deavere

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375501509 ISBN 13: 9780375501500

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2000

Synopsis

300 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. This Is A Landmark Contribution From A Woman Whose Pioneering Insights Into Language Speak Volumes.

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Review:

"What Smith does with these interviews shows a kind of brilliance that goes straight to the heart."
--Los Angeles Times

"Succeeds in teaching one crucial lesson: those who truly listen, truly hear."
--The New York Times Book Review

"[A] fascinating, hall-of-mirrors meditation."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"[A] book as fascinating for its content as it is beautiful for its poetic form."
--Denver Rocky Mountain News

"[This book] succeeds in teaching one crucial lesson: those who truly listen, truly hear."
--The New York Times Book Review

About the Author:

Anna Deavere Smith is an actor, a teacher, a playwright, and the creator of an acclaimed series of one-woman plays based on her interviews with diverse voices from communities in crisis. She is the founder and director of The Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at Harvard University, and is the Ann O'Day Maples Professor of the Arts at Stanford University. Her works include Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 and Fires in the Mirror, and she has written for Newsweek and The New Yorker, among other publications. She lives in San Francisco.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375501509
• ISBN 13: 9780375501500
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300