Seek : Reports from The Edges Of America & Beyond Softcover - 2002
by Denis Johnson
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- Title Seek : Reports from The Edges Of America & Beyond
- Author Denis Johnson
- Binding Softcover
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-03-19
- Bookseller's Inventory # 53742
- ISBN 9780060930479 / 0060930470
- Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.4 x 0.66 in (20.37 x 13.72 x 1.68 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Novelists, American, United States - Description and travel
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.92
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From the rear cover
Part political disquisition, part travel journal, part self-exploration, Seek is a collection of essays and articles in which Denis Johnson essentially takes on the world.And not an obliging, easygoing world either; but rather one in which horror and beauty exist in such proximity that they might well be interchangeable. Where violence and poverty and moral transgression go unchecked, even unnoticed. A world of such wild, rocketing energy that, grasping it, anything at all is possible.
Whether traveling through war-ravaged Liberia, mingling with the crowds at a Christian Biker rally, exploring his own authority issues through the lens of this nation's militia groups, or attempting to unearth his inner resources while mining for gold in the wilds of Alaska, Johnson writes with a mixture of humility and humorous candor that is everywhere present.
With the breathtaking and often haunting lyricism for which his work is renowned, Johnson considers in these pieces our need for transcendence. And, as readers of his previous work know, Johnson's path to consecration frequently requires a limning of the darkest abyss. If the path to knowledge lies in experience, Seek is a fascinating record of Johnson's profoundly moving pilgrimage.
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- Entertainment Weekly, 03/29/2002, Page 67