On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 Condition:Good In his long-awaited first book

In his long-awaited first book

This book tells not just a story about what went wrong but

Written by one of fiction's most audaciously original talents

a top civil servant is found dead

and augmented with translations of the diary entries plus commentaries and photographs

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 Condition:Good In his long-awaited first bookOn Lies, Secrets, and Silence is a sort of travel diary, documenting Adrienne Rich's journeys to the frontier and into the interior. It traces the development of one individual consciousness, "playing over such issues as motherhood, racism, history, poetry, the uses of scholarship, the politics of language". A. Rich has written a headnote for each essay, briefly discussing the circumstances of its writing. "I find in myself both severe and tender