This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers by Sharlet, Jeff
This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers by Sharlet, Jeff

This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers

Known for immersion journalism that is more immersed than most people are willing to go, and for...
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Author: Jeff Sharlet
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This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers by Sharlet, Jeff

This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers

$295.56
This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers by Sharlet, Jeff

This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers

$295.56
Author: Jeff Sharlet
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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?



Author: Jeff Sharlet
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 02/11/2020
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.40h x 6.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781324003205


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 11/04/2019
Library Journal 01/01/2020 pg. 93
Booklist 02/01/2020 pg. 16
Shelf Awareness 03/13/2020

About the Author
Sharlet, Jeff: - Jeff Sharlet is associate professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth, and the best-selling author of The Family (made into a Netflix documentary series), This Brilliant Darkness, C Street, and Sweet Heaven When I Die. His work has earned numerous awards, including the National Magazine Award and the Outspoken Award.
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