The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American VoiceFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 M08 21 - 336 pages From the author of Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces, an exhilarating and provocative investigation of the tangle of American identity |
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... jagged edges of American culture ... Marcus has a good critic's courage to stick his chin out . He also has a Pynchonian eye for unnoticed congruities . " -Tom Baxter , Paste magazine " In an era when most books of cultural criticism.
... eyes smiled . He might be a piece of shit but Jackson had some balls on him . Either that or he was more frightened of his business associates than he was of me . That was a real mistake on his part . When the landing jet swept over the ...
... eyes from you . Yea ! When ye make many prayers , I will not hear . Your hands are full of blood ; cease to do evil , learn to do well ; seek judgment . " " Fifty - three years ago , the Fourth of July was a proud day for our country ...
Prophecy and the American Voice Greil Marcus. ice-cold eyes were staring down from the television screen above the bar. “Can you believe it?” someone said at the time. “All those hours he was sittin' here, that crazy cracker was workin ...
... eyes were staring down from the television screen above the bar . " Can you believe it ? " someone said at the time . “ All those hours he was sittin ' here , that crazy cracker was workin ' out how he was gonna bag that jig . " Like ...
Contents
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Philip Roth and the Lost Republic | 41 |
Bill Pullmans Face | 101 |
Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer | 147 |
David Thomas | 201 |
Kansas | 259 |
Acknowledgments | 305 |