Sweet Heaven When I Die

Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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In this gorgeous collection of essays that has drawn comparisons to the work of Joan Didion, John McPhee, and Norman Mailer, best-selling author Jeff Sharlet reports back from the far reaches of belief, whether in the clear mountain air of “Sweet Fuck All, Colorado” or in a midnight congregation of anarchists celebrating a victory over police. Like movements in a complex piece of music, Sharlet’s dispatches vibrate with all the madness and beauty, the melancholy and aspirations for transcendence, of American life.

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-09-10
Mått:140 x 211 x 18 mm
Vikt:239 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:WW Norton & Co
ISBN:9780393344233

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Jeff Sharlet is the New York Times best-selling author or editor of eight books, including The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War and The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, adapted into a Netflix documentary series. His reporting on LGBTIQ+ rights around the world has received the National Magazine Award, the Molly Ivins Prize, and Outright International’s Outspoken Award. His writing and photography have appeared in many publications, including Vanity Fair, for which he is a contributing editor; the New York Times Magazine; GQ; Esquire; Harper’s Magazine; and VQR, for which he is an editor at large. He is the Frederick Sessions Beebe ’35 Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College, where he lives in the woods with many animals.

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"Brilliant portraits of faith, despair and the fictions that keep people going. . . . [Sharlet’s] often-elegiac prose rumbles withthe fierce rhythms of the blues."