The Last Street Before Cleveland: An Accidental Pilgrimage - Couverture souple

Mackall, Joe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803254741 ISBN 13 : 9780803254749

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2014

Synopsis

The old neighborhood was the place that Joe Mackall left. It was a place where everyone's parents worked at the factory at the dead end of the street, where the Catholic church operated like a religious city hall, and where he grew up vowing to get out as soon as he could and to shed his blue-collar beginnings and failed, flawed religion.

When the mysterious death of a childhood friend draws him back to the last street before Cleveland, however, he discovers that there is more to "old haunts" than mere words--and more to severing one's roots than just getting away.

The Last Street Before Cleveland chronicles Mackall's descent into his past: the story of how, looking for answers about his lost friend, he stumbles onto larger questions about himself. With clear-eyed candor, Mackall describes the resurfacing of dormant demons, the opening of the old chasms of depression and addiction, and the discovery, at rock bottom, of a flickering faith that casts a surprising light over everything that has come before. Mackall's is, finally, a story about life--lived and lost, given and earned.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Joe Mackall is a professor of English at Ashland University, as well as a cofounder and editor of the nonfiction journal River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and on NPR's Morning Edition, and he is the author of Plain Secrets: An Outsider among the Amish.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803254741
• ISBN 13: 9780803254749
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible