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  • Published: 2 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448114337
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416
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Notes from the Other Side of America




A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape - from high to low to lower than low - by the award-winning young star of the literary world

John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America - to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the straggling refugees of MTV's Real World; to Indiana to investigate the formative years of Michael Jackson and Axl Rose and then to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Katrina - and back again as its residents confront the BP oil spill. Simultaneously channeling the gonzo energy of Hunter S. Thompson and the wit and insight of Joan Didion, Sullivan - with a laidback, erudite Southern charm that's all his own - shows us how America really (no, really) lives now.

  • Published: 2 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448114337
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416
Categories:

About the author

John Jeremiah Sullivan

JOHN JEREMIAH SULLIVAN was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1974, and now lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, with his wife and two daughters. He was an editor at Harper's Magazine and a writer for GQ before becoming a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. He is currently the Southern Editor of The Paris Review.

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