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In the Land of Good Living by Kent Russell

A wickedly smart, funny, and irresistibly off-kilter account of an improbable thousand-mile journey on foot into the heart of modern Florida, the state that Russell calls America Concentrate.

In the summer of 2016, Kent Russell--broke, at loose ends, hungry for adventure--set off to walk across Florida. Mythic, superficial, soaked in contradictions, maligned by cultural elites, segregated from the South, and literally vanishing into the sea, Florida (or, as he calls it: America Concentrate) seemed to Russell to embody America's divided soul. The journey, with two friends intent on filming the ensuing mayhem, quickly reduces the trio to filthy drifters pushing a shopping cart of camera equipment. They get waylaid by a concerned citizen bearing a rifle; buy cocaine from an ex-wrestler; visit a spiritual medium; attend a cuckold party. The narrative overflows with historical detail about how modern Florida came into being after World War I, and how it came to be a petri dish for life in a suddenly, increasingly diverse new land of minority-majority cities and of unrivaled ethnic and religious variety. Russell has taken it all in with his incomparably focused lens and delivered a book that is both an inspired travelogue and a profound rumination on the nation's soul--and his own. It is a book that is wildly vivid, encyclopedic, erudite, and ferociously irreverent--a deeply ambivalent love letter to his sprawling, brazenly varied home state.

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The New Republic, Harper's, GQ, n+1, the Believer, and Grantland have all published Kent Russell's writings. Kent's story for n+1 about Insane Clown Posse fans, American Juggalo, won a Pushcart Award in 2013. He is a New Yorker.

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ISBN 13 9780525521389
ISBN 10 0525521380
Title In the Land of Good Living
Author Kent Russell
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf
Year published 2020-07-07
Number of pages 320
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.