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John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America - to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; Thompson and the wit and insight of Joan Didion, Sullivan - with a laidback, erudite Southern charm that's all his own - shows us how America really (no, really) lives now.
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A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape - from high to low to lower than low - by the award-winning young star of the literary worldJohn Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America - to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the straggling refugees of MTV's Real World; to Indiana to investigate the formative years of Michael Jackson and Axl Rose and then to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Katrina - and back again as its residents confront the BP oil spill. Simultaneously channeling the gonzo energy of Hunter S. Thompson and the wit and insight of Joan Didion, Sullivan - with a laidback, erudite Southern charm that's all his own - shows us how America really (no, really) lives now.
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A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape, from high to low to lower than low, from this rising star on the American literary scene.
Author Biography
John Jeremiah Sullivan is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the southern editor of The Paris Review. He writes for GQ, Harper's Magazine, and Oxford American, and is the author of Blood Horses and Pulphead. Sullivan lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Review
The ghost of Mark Twain is evoked in this outstanding collection of essays * Sunday Times *Pulphead is a big, fat, frequently exhilarating collection * Guardian *Pulphead has a ramshackle loquacity, a down-home hyper-eloquence and an off-the-wallishness that is quite distinct - and highly addictive -- Goeff DyerThe best, and most important collection of magazine writing since David Foster Wallace's A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again * New York Times Book Review *From prehistoric caves to Axl Rose's oxygen chamber, Sullivan's generous, witty voice lights up every page -- Joe Dunthorne
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A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape - from high to low to lower than low - by the award-winning young star of the literary world
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The ghost of Mark Twain is evoked in this outstanding collection of essays
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The ghost of Mark Twain is evoked in this outstanding collection of essays
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A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape - from high to low to lower than low - by the award-winning young star of the literary world
Details ISBN0099572354 Author John Jeremiah Sullivan Year 2012 ISBN-10 0099572354 ISBN-13 9780099572350 Format Paperback Imprint Vintage Subtitle Notes from the Other Side of America Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 814.6 Media Book Pages 416 Short Title PULPHEAD Language English Birth 1974 Series Vintage Books Publisher Vintage Publishing Publication Date 2012-08-02 UK Release Date 2012-08-02 AU Release Date 2012-08-02 NZ Release Date 2012-08-02 Alternative 9781448114337 Audience General We've got this
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