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"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 nonfiction world In Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on an exhilarating tour of our popular, unpopular, and at times completely...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sullivan, John Jeremiah, 1974-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Popular culture > American influences.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays.
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Table of Contents:
  • Upon this rock
  • Feet in smoke
  • Mr. Lytle : an essay
  • At a shelter (after Katrina)
  • Getting down to what is really real
  • Michael
  • The final comeback of Axl Rose
  • American grotesque
  • LaʺHwiʺNeʺSki : career of an eccentric naturalist
  • Unnamed caves
  • Unknown bards
  • The last wailer
  • Violence of the lambs
  • Peyton's place.