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The Correspondence (Paperback)
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The Correspondence (Paperback)
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List price R322
Loot Price R261
Discovery Miles 2 610
You Save R61 (19%)
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'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.
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