
Description
Product Details
Publisher | Madville Publishing |
Publish Date | August 15, 2023 |
Pages | 352 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781956440553 |
Dimensions | 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.9 inches | 0.8 pounds |
About the Author
Reviews
"I wasn't who I was because I was a journalist, I was a journalist because of who I am." We need such journalists. Sean Carberry has written a brave book for which there are no passport stamps-the soul highs and lows of intoxicating faith leaping around dangerous combat zones on a years-long adrenalin rush. This is a clarion call for better mental health treatment after a confusing exodus from that world, where writing knits together that which is frayed and keeps indelible experiences on the shelves of story, always.
--Jacki Lyden, author of Daughter of the Queen of Sheba and former NPR host and correspondent___________________________________________________________________
Passport Stamps brings to mind Gale Garnett's "We'll Sing in the Sunshine." Carberry describes the evanescence of sunshine and darkness followed by the inevitable being "on the way" of a journalist. Carberry's world is a tattered web of people and places: Serbia, Russia, Egypt, Columbia, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan-our simultaneously horrifying yet alluring broken globe. Passport Stamps records Carberry's memories-accounts which make the reader ache for his forgotten life, real or imagined. It is a sharp, raking marvelous travel book, an autobiography rich with detail and ponderings about life.
--Sam Pickering, author of The Gate in the Garden Wall, and "The Truth"___________________________________________________________________
A lot of journalists come back from covering war and disaster and write the book about what they saw. Sean Carberry tells a different story-about what goes on inside of such a reporter's mind out there. Hopes, dreams, fears, embarrassment, hard lessons. It's all there, and it's quite a yarn.
--John Donvan, former ABC News correspondent, filmmaker, and author of In a Different Key: The Story of AutismEarn by promoting books