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George Anderson: Notes for a Love Song in Imperial Time (American Literature Series) Paperback – March 5, 2013

by Peter Dimock (Author)

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Theo Fales is a one-time historian turned book editor who specializes in ghostwriting the memoirs of leading American policy-makers. For over twenty-five years, Theo has been helping retired generals and CIA directors justify their decisions in the first-person. One day, however, hearing a song at a colleague's memorial service, Theo has a vision: he senses, in the music, a completely different way to live. He becomes obsessed by a need to align musical time with the metre of his own life and prose. Theo's method opens onto two seemingly contradictory interior landscapes: one, a rage of identification with a college classmate who has written and signed the legal document justifying the use of torture by the US; the other, a love for the singer best known for her interpretations of the composer who wrote that vital song. Theo commits himself to the idea that only through his method will he be able to save himself. Is he mad, or has history itself lost its way?

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Series: American Literature Series
Paperback: 956 pages
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press (March 5, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1564788016
ISBN-13: 978-1564788016
Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 0.1 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,160,314 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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About the Author

Peter Dimock has long worked in publishing--at Random House, and as senior executive editor for history and political science at Columbia University Press, where he worked with authors including Angela Davis, Eric Hobsbawm, Toni Morrison, and Amartya Sen. His first novel, A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family, was published by Dalkey Archive Press in 1998.

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A Revolutionary Novel

By Donald F. Dal Maso on March 6, 2013

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This novel--a crucible of interloping texts, betrayals, desire, damnation--burns with a white-hot energy. If that kind of energy could transcend the printed page to encompass our present American culture it would start to purify us from the likes of Bush, Cheney, Yoo, Addington, Bybee. It would put complicit individuals (like most of us) back onto the path of full humanity and freedom. It would burn up our narcissistic fantasies about ourselves.

But leave our culture aside--the book is an extraordinary accomplishment as a novel. Within the novel, spoken by a narrator who is only a step away from despair, that same white-hot energy is tempered, not quenched, at the end by a yellowed newspaper clipping. Containing the final and full story of an ex-slave, now long dead, the newspaper article is placed next to an official government document. I am so moved at that point in the book that I can't bring myself to try to put my feelings into words.

Full disclosure: Peter Dimock has been a close friend of mine for many years. But while I have come to know some of his ideas, not least of all through his earlier novel A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family, our friendship in no way prepared me for the scope and importance of George Anderson. I urge anybody who is interested in the art of the American novel to take up this book.

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A beautiful read.

By Ian H. Power on September 5, 2013

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This book had everything I look for in a symphony. I mean that in a good way. It can be slow going, and there's plenty of straight repetition (which I love), but it is a really beautiful thesis on what it means to love as a citizien, to be responsible as a citizen, or to be mad.

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This little gem of a book elegantly articulates the difficulty ...

By B. Lane on August 31, 2014

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This little gem of a book elegantly articulates the difficulty of cohering American narratives of freedom and justice with the realities of her actions to buttress empire. An astounding, astonishing little book that I will be recommending to basically everyone I ever meet for the rest of my life.

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