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Pulphead de John Jeremiah Sullivan

Pulphead

Autor John Jeremiah Sullivan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2011

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National Book Critics Circle Award (2011), Saroyan Writing Prize (2012)

A "New York Times" Notable Book for 2011
One of "Entertainment Weekly"'s Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011
A "Time Magazine" Top 10 Nonfiction book of 2011
A "Boston Globe" Best Nonfiction Book of 2011
One of "Library Journal"'s Best Books of 2011

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 nonfiction world.

In "Pulphead, "John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on an exhilarating tour of our popular, unpopular, and at times completely forgotten culture. Simultaneously channeling the gonzo energy of Hunter S. Thompson and the wit and insight of Joan Didion, Sullivan shows us with a laidback, erudite Southern charm that's all his own how we really (no, really) live now.

In his native Kentucky, Sullivan introduces us to Constantine Rafinesque, a nineteenth-century polymath genius who concocted a dense, fantastical prehistory of the New World. Back in modern times, Sullivan takes us to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the alumni and straggling refugees of MTV's "Real World, "who've generated their own self-perpetuating economy of minor celebrity; and all across the South on the trail of the blues. He takes us 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.

Gradually, a unifying narrative emerges, a story about this country that we've never heard told this way. It's like a fun-house hall-of-mirrors tour: Sullivan shows us who we are in ways we've never imagined to be true. Of course we don't know whether to laugh or cry when faced with this reflection it's our inevitable sob-guffaws that attest to the power of Sullivan's work."

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780374532901
ISBN-10: 0374532907
Pagini: 369
Dimensiuni: 127 x 191 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Farrar Straus Giroux
Colecția Farrar, Strauß and Giroux

Recenzii

The age-old strangeness of American pop culture gets dissected with hilarious and revelatory precision...Sullivan writes an extraordinary prose that's stuffed with off-beat insight gleaned from rapt, appalled observations and suffused with a hang-dog charm. The result is an arresting take on the American imagination.--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)

"Sullivan's essays have won two National Magazine Awards, and here his omnivorous intellect analyzes Michael Jackson, Christian rock, post-Katrina New Orleans, Axl Rose and the obscure 19th century naturalist Constantine Rafinesque. His compulsive honesty and wildly intelligent prose recall the work of American masters of New Journalism like Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe." --"Time"
"Sullivan's essays stay with you, like good short stories--and like accomplished short fiction, they often will, over time, reveal a fuller meaning . . . Whether he ponders the legacy of a long-dead French scientist or the unlikely cultural trajectory of Christian rock, Sullivan imbues his narrative subjects with a broader urgency reminiscent of other great practitioners of the essay-profile, such as "New Yorker" writers Joseph Mitchell and A. J. Liebling or Gay Talese during his '60s "Esquire" heyday . . . ["Pulphead"] reinforces [Sullivan's] standing as among the best of his generation's essayists.

"Sullivan seems able to do almost anything, to work in any register, and not just within a single piece but often in the span of a single paragraph..."Pulphead" is the best, and most important, collection of magazine writing since Wallace's "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again."..Sullivan's writing is a bizarrely coherent, novel, and generous pastiche of the biblical, the demotic, the regionally gusty and the erudite." --"The New York Times Book Review"
["Pulphead "is] a big and sustaining pile of--as I've heard it put about certain people's fried chicken--crunchy goodness . . . What's impressive about "Pulphead" is the way these disparate essays cohere into a memoirlike whole. The putty that binds them together is Mr. Sullivan's steady and unhurried voice. Reading him, I felt the way Mr. Sullivan does while listening to a Bunny Wailer song called 'Let Him Go.' That is, I felt 'like a puck on an air-hockey table that's been switched on.' Like well-made songs, his essays don't just have strong verses and choruses but bridges, too, unexpected bits that make subtle harmonic connections . . . The book has its grotesques, for sure. But they are genuine and appear here in a way that put me in mind of one of Flannery O'Connor's indelible utterances. 'Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, ' O'Connor said, 'I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.'" --"The New York Times"
"Sullivan's essays have won two National Magazine Awards, and here his omnivorous intellect analyzes Michael Jackson, Christian rock, post-Katrina New Orleans, Axl Rose and the obscure 19th century naturalist Constantine Rafinesque. His compulsive honesty and wildly intelligent prose recall the work of American masters of New Journalism like Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe." --"Time"
"Sullivan's essays stay with you, like good short stories--and like accomplished short fiction, they often will, over time, reveal a fulle

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A "New York Times" Notable Book for 2011 One of "Entertainment Weekly"'s Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011A "Time Magazine" Top 10 Nonfiction book of 2011A "Boston Globe" Best Nonfiction Book of 2011One of "Library Journal"'s Best Books of 2011 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 nonfiction world.
In "Pulphead, "John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on an exhilarating tour of our popular, unpopular, and at times completely forgotten culture. Simultaneously channeling the gonzo energy of Hunter S. Thompson and the wit and insight of Joan Didion, Sullivan shows us--with a laidback, erudite Southern charm that's all his own--how we really (no, really) live now.
In his native Kentucky, Sullivan introduces us to Constantine Rafinesque, a nineteenth-century polymath genius who concocted a dense, fantastical prehistory of the New World. Back in modern times, Sullivan takes us to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the alumni and straggling refugees of MTV's "Real World, "who've generated their own self-perpetuating economy of minor celebrity; and all across the South on the trail of the blues. He takes us 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.
Gradually, a unifying narrative emerges, a story about this country that we've never heard told this way. It's like a fun-house hall-of-mirrors tour: Sullivan shows us who we are in ways we've never imagined to be true. Of course we don't know whether to laugh or cry when faced with this reflection--it's our inevitable sob-guffaws that attest to the power of Sullivan's work.

Notă biografică

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." Sullivan lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.

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