TALK TO ME(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　Anna Deveare Smith’s award-winning one-woman shows were borne
of her uniquely brilliant ability to listen. In Talk to Me she
applies her rare talent to the language of political power in
America.
　　Believing that character and language are inextricably bound,
Smith sets out to discern the essence of America by listening to
its people and trying to capture its politics. To that end she
travels to some of America’s most conspicuous places, like the
presidential conventions of 1996, and some of its darkest corners,
like a women’s prison in Maryland. And along the way she interviews
everyone from janitors to murderers to Bill Clinton himself.
Memoir, social commentary, meditation on language, this book is as
vastly ambitious as it is compellingly unique

　　Playwright, actress, teacher, Anna Deavere Smith is most of
all a listener. For years she has created unique art by listening
more closely than others, listening with the belief that language
and character are inextricably bound. In Talk to Me she listens in
search of America.
　　Smith’s goal is to discern the American character and to capture
its politics. To that end she travels everywhere from the site of
recent church burnings in rural Alabama to the presidential
conventions of 1996, from the segregated Baltimore of her childhood
to the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women. And along the way
she interviews everyone from Studs Terkel to President Bill Clinton
himself. The result is a defiantly brilliant book that honors no
rules.

　　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
　　– Review