{"product_id":"this-brilliant-darkness-jeff-sharlet-9781324003205","title":"This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers","description":"\u003cp\u003eKnown 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarly 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--\u003cem\u003eThis Brilliant Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e erases the boundaries between author, subject, and reader to ask: how do people live with suffering?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeff Sharlet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1324003200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324003205\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/11\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 6.20w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/04\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2020 pg. 93\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2020 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/13\/2020","brand":"Jeff Sharlet","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44047488516351,"sku":"9781324003205","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aa399c39-8684-4cfa-9077-8371b0ca3e65.jpg?v=1684990501","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/this-brilliant-darkness-jeff-sharlet-9781324003205","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}