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This Brilliant Darkness - A Book of Strangers (Hardcover) Loot Price: R483
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This Brilliant Darkness - A Book of Strangers (Hardcover): Jeff Sharlet

This Brilliant Darkness - A Book of Strangers (Hardcover)

Jeff Sharlet

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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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Imprint: W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 2020
Authors: Jeff Sharlet
Dimensions: 217 x 163 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-1-324-00320-5
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Photographic collections > Photographic reportage
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
LSN: 1-324-00320-0
Barcode: 9781324003205

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