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This Brilliant Darkness : A Book of Strangers by Jeff Sharlet (2020, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-101324003200
ISBN-139781324003205
eBay Product ID (ePID)3038471186
Product Key Features
Book TitleThis Brilliant Darkness : a Book of Strangers
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPoverty & Homelessness, Photojournalism, General, Emotions, Photoessays & Documentaries
Publication Year2020
IllustratorYes
GenrePhilosophy, Social Science, Photography, Psychology
AuthorJeff Sharlet
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight20.6 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2019-030058
ReviewsBless Jeff Sharlet for not walking away, but sharing his humanity by bridging the deadly gap of isolation with love., Propelled and sustained by Sharlet's crystalline attention and his electric voice, at once bold and precise, this stunning book will stay in me for good., This book of photographs and extended captions becomes a gallery of souls, and somehow, by patient accretion, a guidebook to staying human in the panopticon. It speaks back to the deafening noise of our moment with quiet power., One of the most beautiful works I've ever read. This Brilliant Darkness is dazzling and addictive, a constellation of stories about how we love before we die. This book breathes., [This Brilliant Darkness] shines like a fire in the night: It brings us close, lights the darkness, and shows us unseen worlds., Sharlet's haunting photos accompany clipped, pointillist, but expressive prose that evokes character and tragedy...The result is a triumph of visual and written storytelling, both evocative and moving., Sharlet provides a poignant and wholly intimate portrait of the lives of those who are often overlooked in our society, breathing a sense of humanity in a part of our world that is so often inhumane. A highly recommended book that is at times difficult to take in and difficult to put down., A phenomenally original book that will press into your chest about as deeply as literature can go. Sharlet is his generation's Steinbeck., This Brilliant Darkness embodies what it invites--real consideration and reconsideration of our own company, what we fellow travelers do and do not share. Jeff Sharlet suggestively notes that our unreliable bodies are their own unreliable narrators. He has put his own on the line. Spend time with him there.
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal818.603
SynopsisKnown 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 drifting into dementia, whose only friend was a houseplant, on shopping trips. Early readers have called this book "incantatory," the voice "prophetic," in "James Agee's tradition of looking at the reality of American lives." 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 and the lost (or merely disoriented), other people on the margins-- This Brilliant Darkness erases the boundaries between author, subject, and reader to ask: how do people live with suffering?, 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 "incantatory," the voice "prophetic," in "James Agee's tradition of looking at the reality of American lives." 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?, A visionary work of radical empathy. 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 "incantatory," the voice "prophetic," in "James Agee's tradition of looking at the reality of American lives." 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?
LC Classification NumberBF789.S8S53 2020
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- Apr 15, 2020
Increasingly compelling! Keep on reading
It is one of the most interesting and unusual books I have read in my lifetime. I finished it quickly (We seem to have a lot more free time on our hands these days!) and have passed it on to a friend. This book depicts and discusses a life most of us know very little about, unless we are insomniac and are willing to venture into dark unknown places and stay there long enough to document what we see and hear. It is very unlikely we will do that so we are fortunate that Jeff Sharlet has done that for us and done it well.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
