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 Americaâs cultural landscapeâfrom high to low to lower than lowâby 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 usâwith a laidback, erudite Southern charm thatâs all his ownâhow 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 MTVâs Real World, whoâve 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 Katrinaâand back again as its residents confront the BP oil spill.
Gradually, a unifying narrative emerges, a story about this country that weâve never heard told this way. Itâs like a fun-house hall-of-mirrors tour: Sullivan shows us who we are in ways weâve never imagined to be true. Of course we donât know whether to laugh or cry when faced with this reflectionâitâs our inevitable sob-guffaws that attest to the power of Sullivanâs work.
Categories:
- Science & Math
- Earth Sciences
- Atmospheric Sciences
- Earth Sciences
Publisher : FSG Originals
Author : John Jeremiah Sullivan
Language : English
Edition : 1
Published :2011-10-25
Number Of Pages : 384
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0374532907
ISBN-13 : 9780374532901
Item weight : 0.4 lb
Dimensions : 1.1 in x 5 in x 7.4 in
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