Loud and Clear

ISBN: 0739309293

Author: Quindlen, Anna

Condition: Used

Product Description In this remarkable book, Anna Quindlen, one of Americas favorite novelists and a Pulitzer Prize- winning columnist, once again gives us wisdom, opinions, insights, and reflections about current events and modern life. Always insightful, rooted in everyday experience and common sense...Quindlen is so good that even when you disagree with what she says, you still love the way she says it, said People magazine about her number one New York Times bestseller Thinking Out Loud, and the same can be said about Loud and Clear.With her trademark insight and her special ability to convey the impact public events have on ordinary lives, Quindlen here combines commentary on American society and the world at large with reflections on being a woman, a writer, and a mother. In these pieces, first written for Newsweek and The New York Times, Loud and Clear takes on topics ranging from social change to raising children, from the political and emotional aftermath of September 11 to personal values, from the impact on individuals of global events to the growth that can be gained by spending summer days staring into the middle distance. Grounding the public in the private, connecting people to each other and to the greater world, Quindlen encourages us to develop authentic lives, even as she serves as a catalyst for political and social change.Anna Quindlens beat is life, and shes one hell of a terrific reporter, said Susan Isaacs, and Quindlens unique qualities of understanding and discernment, everywhere evident in her previous bestsellers, including A Short Guide to a Happy Life and Living Out Loud, can be found on every page of this provocative and inspiring book.From the Hardcover edition. Review Quindlen is an astonishingly graceful writer.-San Francisco Examiner, about Living Out LoudQuindlen...has earned her [Pulitzer] Prize and even sounds like somebody who would be fun to have to dinner.-Boston Sunday Herald, about Thinking Out LoudQuindlen displays...an easy, elegant prose style and a canny eye for small details that reveal larger truths about people and society.-Newsday, about Living Out LoudAnna Quindlen is Americas Resident Sane Person. She has what Joyce called the common touch, the ability to speak to many people about whats on their minds before they have the vaguest idea whats on their minds.-Patricia Volk, The New York Times, about BlessingsFrom the Hardcover edition. From the Inside Flap In this remarkable book, Anna Quindlen, one of America's favorite novelists and a Pulitzer Prize- winning columnist, once again gives us wisdom, opinions, insights, and reflections about current events and modern life. "Always insightful, rooted in everyday experience and common sense...Quindlen is so good that even when you disagree with what she says, you still love the way she says it," said People magazine about her number one New York Times bestseller Thinking Out Loud, and the same can be said about Loud and Clear.With her trademark insight and her special ability to convey the impact public events have on ordinary lives, Quindlen here combines commentary on American society and the world at large with reflections on being a woman, a writer, and a mother. In these pieces, first written for Newsweek and The New York Times, Loud and Clear takes on topics ranging from social change to raising children, from the political and emotional aftermath of September 11 to personal values, from the impact on individuals of global events to the growth that can be gained by spending summer days staring into the middle distance. Grounding the public in the private, connecting people to each other and to the greater world, Quindlen encourages us to develop authentic lives, even as she serves as a catalyst for political and social change."Anna Quindlen's beat is life, and she's one hell of a terrific reporter," said Susan Isaacs, and Quindlen's unique qualities of understanding and discernment