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Seek de Denis Johnson

Seek

Autor Denis Johnson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 feb 2004
Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond. Award-winning American novelist Denis Johnson travels between the extremes of human behaviour, traipsing across war-ravaged Liberia, witness to horrifying acts of torture before joining a Bikers for Jesus rally in Texas and meeting other Americans whose beliefs oscillate between guns and God. The result is like an addictive mixture of Louis Theroux and 'Heart of Darkness'. New in paperback.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780413772756
ISBN-10: 0413772756
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Ediția:New ed
Editura: Methuen Publishing
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

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Part political disquisition, part travel journal, part self-exploration, Seek is a collection of essays and articles in which Denis Johnson essentially takes on the world.And not an obliging, easygoing world either; but rather one in which horror and beauty exist in such proximity that they might well be interchangeable. Where violence and poverty and moral transgression go unchecked, even unnoticed. A world of such wild, rocketing energy that, grasping it, anything at all is possible.
Whether traveling through war-ravaged Liberia, mingling with the crowds at a Christian Biker rally, exploring his own authority issues through the lens of this nation's militia groups, or attempting to unearth his inner resources while mining for gold in the wilds of Alaska, Johnson writes with a mixture of humility and humorous candor that is everywhere present.
With the breathtaking and often haunting lyricism for which his work is renowned, Johnson considers in these pieces our need for transcendence. And, as readers of his previous work know, Johnson's path to consecration frequently requires a limning of the darkest abyss. If the path to knowledge lies in experience, Seek is a fascinating record of Johnson's profoundly moving pilgrimage.

Recenzii

"There isn't an American voice I love listening to more than Denis Johnson's." — Michael Herr
"To put the matter simply, Denis Johnson is one of the best and most compelling novelists and story writers in the nation." — Elle
"Johnson's dark and violent fiction has prepared us for some of what we find in Seek, but ultimately it's his confrontation with the truth. . . that gives the book its flashes of brilliance." — Ted Conover, New York Times Book Review
“Denis Johnson writes with a fervor that can only be described as religious. Seek is scary and beautiful and ecstatic and uncontrolled…he elevates the mundane to the sublime; he boils things down to their essence. He’s simply one of the few writers around whose sentences make you shudder.” — Adrienne Miller, Esquire
"Mr. Johnson zeroes in on the details that bring the reader into the story." — The Wall Street Journal

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