Out of Silence: a journey into language
by Martin, Russell
- Used
- first
- Condition
- VG in VG DJ
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About This Item
NY: Holt. VG in VG DJ. (1994). 1st ed 1st ptg. Martin combines the story of a speechless boy with an elegant inquiry into the totality of language & what makes us human. .
Synopsis
Russell Martin's Picasso's War: The Destruction of Guernica, and the Masterpiece That Changed the World is published in hardcover by Dutton and in unabridged audio by Highbridge. He is the author of Beethoven's Hair (2000), a U.S. bestseller and winner of the Colorado Book Award, which has been published in fifteen editions around the world and will soon be the subject of an international television documentary. His highly acclaimed 1994 book, Out of Silence , was named by the Bloomsbury Review as one of fifteen best books of its first fifteen years of publication. A Story That Stands Like A Dam: Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the West (1989), won the Caroline Bancroft History Prize. He also is the author of the novel Beautiful Islands (1988); The Color Orange: A Super Bowl Season with the Denver Broncos (1987); Matters Gray and White: A Neurologist, His Patients & the Mysteries of the Brain (1986); Entering Space (co-authored with Joseph P. Allen, 1984), and Cowboy: The Enduring Myth of the Wild West (1983). He has edited two anthologies of contemporary western writing, Writers of the Purple Sage (1984) and New Writers of the Purple Sage (1992). He is a graduate of The Colorado College in Colorado Springs, where he has returned to teach for eighteen years. He also has taught courses at conferences including Writers@Work and the Desert Writers workshop. He spent a postgraduate year on a Thomas Watson Foundation fellowship in Great Britain and Guatemala and worked as a newspaper reporter in Telluride, Colorado for a number of years before becoming a freelance writer. In 1995, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by his alma mater. He lives in Denver and Salt Lake City.
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- Bookseller
- Crabtree's Collection Old Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS017631I
- Title
- Out of Silence: a journey into language
- Author
- Martin, Russell
- Book Condition
- Used - VG in VG DJ
- Edition
- 1st ed 1st ptg
- Publisher
- Holt
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- (1994)
- Keywords
- Martin combines the story of a speechless boy with an elegant inquiry, into the totality of language & what makes us human., Language
- Bookseller catalogs
- Psychology;
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