Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country in Between
Jeff Sharlet
(Author)
Description
In this gorgeous collection of essays that has drawn comparisons to the work of Joan Didion, John McPhee, and Norman Mailer, best-selling author Jeff Sharlet reports back from the far reaches of belief, whether in the clear mountain air of "Sweet Fuck All, Colorado" or in a midnight congregation of anarchists celebrating a victory over police. Like movements in a complex piece of music, Sharlet's dispatches vibrate with all the madness and beauty, the melancholy and aspirations for transcendence, of American life.Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
September 10, 2012
Pages
288
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.2 X 0.8 inches | 0.55 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393344233
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About the Author
Jeff Sharlet is the New York Times best-selling author or editor of eight books, including The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War and The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, adapted into a Netflix documentary series. His reporting on LGBTIQ+ rights around the world has received the National Magazine Award, the Molly Ivins Prize, and Outright International's Outspoken Award. His writing and photography have appeared in many publications, including Vanity Fair, for which he is a contributing editor; the New York Times Magazine; GQ; Esquire; Harper's Magazine; and VQR, for which he is an editor at large. He is the Frederick Sessions Beebe '35 Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College, where he lives in the woods with many animals.
Reviews
Sharp and intimate.
the fierce rhythms of the blues.
The book belongs to the tradition of long-form, narrative journalism best exemplified by writers such as Joan Didion, John McPhee, Norman Mailer and Sharlet's contemporary David Samuels. Sharlet deserves a place alongside such masters, for he has emerged as a master investigative stylist and one of the shrewdest commentators on religion's underexplored realms.--Michael Washburn
For Sharlet, the story of American religion is not a polarized one of fundamentalists vs. secularists. It's a vast landscape, and each essay in his remarkable new collection of literary journalism explores a different crag or cranny of it.... There's no better guide to this 'country in between.'--Brook Wilensky-Lanford
Superb... Compelling... Stunning... A fine book, by a deeply thoughtful writer.--Steve Yarbrough
A Must-Read.... Brilliant portraits of the religious fringe...fleshed out in lush three-dimensional detail--a lifetime in a dozen pages, a biography distilled to its purest elements.... Sharlet impresses with his ability to mine the common humanity that lingers in even the most radically minded thinkers.
the fierce rhythms of the blues.
The book belongs to the tradition of long-form, narrative journalism best exemplified by writers such as Joan Didion, John McPhee, Norman Mailer and Sharlet's contemporary David Samuels. Sharlet deserves a place alongside such masters, for he has emerged as a master investigative stylist and one of the shrewdest commentators on religion's underexplored realms.--Michael Washburn
For Sharlet, the story of American religion is not a polarized one of fundamentalists vs. secularists. It's a vast landscape, and each essay in his remarkable new collection of literary journalism explores a different crag or cranny of it.... There's no better guide to this 'country in between.'--Brook Wilensky-Lanford
Superb... Compelling... Stunning... A fine book, by a deeply thoughtful writer.--Steve Yarbrough
A Must-Read.... Brilliant portraits of the religious fringe...fleshed out in lush three-dimensional detail--a lifetime in a dozen pages, a biography distilled to its purest elements.... Sharlet impresses with his ability to mine the common humanity that lingers in even the most radically minded thinkers.
