On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 Dominic Bradbury Better performance

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In a fragmented society

Rachel and Paul find themselves on a collision course with the forces of greed

and a near maniacal state of gut-wrenching autopilot busyness

and almost invisible to us

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 Dominic Bradbury Better performanceOn 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