This Brilliant Darkness (eBook)

A Book of Strangers

Jeff Sharlet (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
336 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-1-324-00321-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Known for immersion journalism that is more immersed than most people are willing to go, and for a prose style that is somehow both fierce and soulful, Jeff Sharlet dives deep into the darkness around us and awaiting us.This work began when his father had a heart attack; two years later, Jeff, still in his forties, had a heart attack of his own. In the grip of writerly self-doubt, Jeff turned to images, taking snapshots and posting them on Instagram, writing short, true stories that bloomed into documentary. During those two years, he spent a lot of time on the road: meeting strangers working night shifts as he drove through the mountains to see his father; exploring the life and death of Charley Keunang, a once-aspiring actor shot by the police on LA's Skid Row; documenting gay pride amidst the violent homophobia of Putin's Russia; passing time with homeless teen addicts in Dublin; and accompanying a lonely woman, whose only friend was a houseplant, on shopping trips.Early readers have called this book "e;incantatory,"e; the voice "e;prophetic,"e; in "e;James Agee's tradition of looking at the reality of American lives."e; Defined by insomnia and late-night driving and the companionship of other darkness-dwellers-night bakers and last-call drinkers, frightened people and frightening people, the homeless, the lost (or merely disoriented), and other people on the margins-This Brilliant Darkness erases the boundaries between author, subject, and reader to ask: how do people live with suffering?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.2.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 116 photographs
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: America • Empathy • Essays • Homeless • Instagram • Night • photography • Photojournalism • Poor • Poverty • United States • visual storytelling
• ISBN-10: 1-324-00321-9 / 1324003219
• ISBN-13: 978-1-324-00321-2 / 9781324003212