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George Prochnik has gifted us with an impassioned, searching meditation on the antique virtues of silence, the evolving natural history of our most overtaxed sense, the etiology of sound in the modern world and the discrete joys of earbud-free listening. Find a quiet corner in which to read this book, but then go out into the world and be prepared to hear it anew. <br>--Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic <br><br><br> A fascinating--and often funny--look at our most abused sense. Turn off your iPod and read this book. <br>--Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe<br><br> <br> Elegant and eloquent. <br> --New York Times<br> <br><br> [A] genial and informative study of the noisiness of modern life. <br> --The New Republic <br> <br><br> Smart... Silence is good for falling asleep, but Prochnik's attentive take on noise keeps us wide awake. <br> --Publishers Weekly<br> <br><br> A lucid, balanced appreciation of silence's solemn tonic. <br>-- Kirkus<br><br><br>

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GEORGE PROCHNIK is the author of Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam, and the Purpose of American Psychology, a New York Times Editor's Choice pick and winner of a 2007 Gradiva Award. He has written for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Playboy, and Cabinet magazine, among other publications. He lives in Brooklyn. <br>www.inpursuitofsilence.com

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