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This Brilliant Darkness - A Book of Strangers (Hardcover)
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This Brilliant Darkness - A Book of Strangers (Hardcover)
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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?
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