J. D. Daniels

The Correspondence (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'What a nutjob!' - Geoff Dyer

'Questions that occurred to me as I read this brilliant, baffling book: What the hell is this? Who the hell is this? Is this poetry?' - Tom Bissell

Can civilization save us from ourselves? That is the question J. D. Daniels asks in his first book, a series of six letters written during dark nights of the soul. Working from his own highly varied experience - as a janitor, night watchman, adjunct professor, drunk, exterminator, dutiful son -he considers how far books and learning and psychoanalysis can get us, and how much we're stuck in the mud.

In prose wound as tight as a copper spring, Daniels takes us from the highways of his native Kentucky to the Balearic Islands and from the Pampas of Brazil to the rarefied precincts of Cambridge, Massachusetts. His travelling companions include psychotic kindergarten teachers, Israeli sailors, and Southern Baptists on fire for Christ. In each dispatch, Daniels takes risks - not just literary (voice, tone, form) but also more immediate, such as spending two years on a Brazilian jiu-jitsu team (he gets beaten to a pulp, repeatedly) or participating in group psychoanalysis (where he goes temporarily insane).

Daniels is that rare thing, a writer completely in earnest whose wit never deserts him, even in extremis. Inventive, intimate, restless, streetwise and erudite, The Correspondence introduces a brave and original observer of the inner life under pressure.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473523876
• Artikelnr.: 45325304

Autorenporträt

J. D. Daniels is the recipient of a 2016 Whiting Award and The Paris Review's 2013 Terry Southern Prize. His 'Letter from Majorca' was selected for The Best American Essays 2013.

Rezensionen

Tightly written, often brilliant... Alive with deft asides and daring intuitive leaps. Daniels is a very good writer, and [this is] a very good book... The self is the well from which all these essays are drawn; or perhaps it's the sewer into which all these essays drain... A complete work about a work-in-progress, the self-portrait of a writer slowly coming into his own. J Robert Lennon Guardian