Sunshine State - Essays

Zusatztext "Armed with a mesmerizing breadth of empathy and a rare! hi-res emotional intuition! Sarah Gerard's essays lead us forward through decades of her observation of our world! along the way unpacking everything from religion to economics! desire to aspiration! grief to the very grit of what seems to make a person tick. It's rare to find a voice you can come to believe in so quickly and completely! like an old friend's! and one whose very spirit makes the world seem that much more bearable! more true. Here is something to believe in." Informationen zum Autor Sarah Gerard is the author of the essay collection Sunshine State , which was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, and the novel Binary Star , which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her short stories, essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, T Magazine, Granta, The Baffler , Vice, and the anthologies Tampa Noir , We Can’t Help it if We’re From Florida , and One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism . She lives in New York City with her true love, the writer Patrick Cottrell. Find her at Sarah-Gerard.com. Klappentext Sarah Gerard follows her breakout novel, Binary Star , with the dynamic essay collection Sunshine State , which explores Florida as a microcosm of the most pressing economic and environmental perils haunting our society. Zusammenfassung 57981236

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Gerard
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9780062434876
• ISBN: 978-0-06-243487-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Biography: general, Poetry, History of Science, United States of America, USA, Literary essays, Anthologies: general, Gender studies: women and girls, Biography: writers, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Literary Figures, POETRY: American / General, POETRY: Women Authors, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, LITERATURE: LITERARY CRITICISM, SCIENCE: History, LITERATURE: LITERARY COLLECTIONS, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Regional Studies, Literature / Literary Criticism, Literature / Literary Collections