Will McGrath

Farewell Transmission (eBook, ePUB)

Notes from Hidden Spaces

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Farewell Transmission, Will McGrath guides us on a rambling quest into the enlightenment of other lives. Funny and weird, heartbreaking and galvanizing, these essays take us from Yemen to Lesotho to the Bronx and beyond. We find Caravaggio at an Arizona homeless shelter and Elvis in rural Canada. We meet street preachers and diamond miners and professional wrestlers and ex-consthose wilderness prophets too frequently cropped from the picture and pushed out of the frame.





This is a book of hiddenness: of secret lives and inscrutable passions, of ghost stories and hallucinations, of excavations into landscapes rarely seen. Whether he's unraveling the mysterious history of a noose in Namibia or rambling through the Driftless Area with a modern-day goatherd, Will McGrath is in search of the invisible forces that bind us across our wondrous and troubling planet. Like John Jeremiah Sullivan's Pulphead and Leslie Jamison's The Empathy Exams, these dispatches pulse with electric prose and vivid characters.





Farewell Transmission is a book about paying attention: to the concealed lives and hidden worlds we encounter every day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dzanc Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 0200
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781950539727
• Artikelnr.: 66024343

Autorenporträt

Will McGrath has worked as a reporter, homeless shelter caseworker, public radio producer, UPS truck loader, Burger King mayo-applicator, ghostwriter, and ghosteditor, in slightly different order.

He spent twenty months living in the southern African kingdom of Lesotho the subject of his book, Everything Lost is Found Again (Dzanc Books 2017), which won the Disquiet Open Borders Book Prize in 2017. He has written for The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, Foreign Affairs, Guernica, and Roads & Kingdoms, among other magazines and journals. His writing has won nonfiction awards including the 2014 Felice Buckvar Prize and has been translated into Chinese, Hungarian, and Japanese.