Farewell Transmission: Notes from Hidden Spaces - Couverture souple

McGrath, Will

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1950539504 ISBN 13 : 9781950539505

Editeur : Dzanc Books, 2022

Synopsis

In Farewell Transmission, Will McGrath guides us on a rambling quest into the enlightenment of other lives. Funny and heartbreaking, intimate and galvanizing, these essays venture from Yemen to Lesotho to the Bronx and beyond. We find Caravaggio at an Arizona homeless shelter and meet Elvis in rural Canada. We encounter diamond miners and professional wrestlers, night watchmen and righteous ex-cons--those wilderness prophets too frequently cropped from the picture.

This is a book of hiddenness: of secret lives and ghost stories and obscure passions. Whether he's unraveling the fraught history of a noose in Namibia or wandering the Driftless Area with a modern-day goatherd, McGrath is on an excavation into landscapes rarely seen. Like Leslie Jamison's The Empathy Exams and John Jeremiah Sullivan's Pulphead, these essays pulse with electric prose and vivid characters, seeking out the invisible forces that bind us across our wondrous and troubling planet.

Farewell Transmission is a book about paying attention: to the concealed lives we encounter every day, and to the hidden worlds that exist within our own.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Will McGrath has worked as a reporter, homeless shelter
caseworker, public radio producer, UPS truck loader, Burger King
mayo-applicator, ghostwriter, and ghosteditor, in slightly different order.

He spent twenty months living in the southern African kingdom of
Lesotho - the subject of his book, Everything
Lost is Found Again (Dzanc Books 2017), which won the Disquiet Open
Borders Book Prize in 2017. He has
written for The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, Foreign Affairs, Guernica, and Roads & Kingdoms, among other magazines and
journals. His writing has won nonfiction
awards including the 2014 Felice Buckvar Prize and has been translated into
Chinese, Hungarian, and Japanese.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dzanc Books
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1950539504
• ISBN 13: 9781950539505
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 209
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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