The Undertow by Jeff Sharlet
One of America's finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful currents beneath the roiled waters of a nation coming apart
"A riveting, vividly detailed collage of political and moral derangement in America" -- Joseph O'Neill - The New York Times Book Review
"[Sharlet's] stories are as necessary as they are harrowing. The writing is explicit and expansive, almost cinematic, like looking at a battlefield from above. Altogether, it's a rare achievement, a cultural-political book that is literary...[The Undertow] has a narrative arc that captures the fever pitch of the past decade. " -- Ann Neumann - The Guardian
"[The Undertow] is journalism-as-art, attempting to capture the mood of the nation at this fraught moment, that others in the future may know how it felt to live through the present. Hopefully there will still be readers then. " -- Adam Fleming Petty - The Washington Post
"[Sharlet's] stories are as necessary as they are harrowing. The writing is explicit and expansive, almost cinematic, like looking at a battlefield from above. Altogether, it's a rare achievement, a cultural-political book that is literary...[The Undertow] has a narrative arc that captures the fever pitch of the past decade. " -- Ann Neumann - The Guardian
"[The Undertow] is journalism-as-art, attempting to capture the mood of the nation at this fraught moment, that others in the future may know how it felt to live through the present. Hopefully there will still be readers then. " -- Adam Fleming Petty - The Washington Post
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781324074519 |
| ISBN 10 | 1324074515 |
| Title | The Undertow |
| Author | Jeff Sharlet |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2024-04-12 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
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