I Am Sorry To Think I Have Raised A Timid Son - Couverture souple

Russell, Kent

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1472151038 ISBN 13 : 9781472151032

Editeur : Corsair, 2015

Synopsis

From one of the most ferociously brilliant and distinctive young voices in literary nonfiction: a debut shot through with violence, comedy, and feverish intensity that takes us on an odyssey into an American netherworld, exposing a raw personal journey along the way.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

KENT RUSSELL's essays have appeared in The New Republic, Harper's, GQ, n+1, The Believer, and Grantland.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

'Kent Russell is one of the most excitingly gifted young non-fiction writers to have appeared in recent memory' John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead
'Exhilarating' Financial Times

'A surprising, beautiful book, at once tough and tender, hilarious and dark, and above all, deeply original.' NPR.org

'A ludicrously smart, tragicomic man-on-the-edge memoir in essays.' Vanity Fair

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

Kent Russell's essays take him to society's ragged edges - the places where savagery and civilization collide. Perhaps among the misfits and the misunderstood - the losers, the hardcore, the alarming, the crazed, the downright frightening - he can find a way to reconcile his uneasy adult desires and his deepest childhood demons.
He goes 'horrorcore' at a four-day music festival in Illinois. He spends a long weekend getting drunk with a man who claims he has conditioned his body to withstand the bites of the most venomous snakes. He finds a castaway on a tiny atoll off the cost of Australia. He explores the Amish obsession with baseball.
Bristling with violence, tragedy and humour and wit, I Am Sorry To Think I Have Raised A Timid Son is a raw personal journey and an unforgettable portrait of masculinity in our time, by a ferociously brilliant and distinctive young voice in literary nonfiction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Corsair
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1472151038
• ISBN 13: 9781472151032
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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