More Curious Contributor(s): Wilsey, Sean (Author) |
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ISBN: 1477307974 ISBN-13: 9781477307977 Publisher: University of Texas Press OUR PRICE: $13.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2015 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Collections | American - General - Travel | United States - General |
Dewey: 917.3 |
LCCN: 2015016200 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.4" W x 8" (1.00 lbs) 348 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: From reviews of the hardcover edition: "More Curious begins by making you wonder what kind of book it is, exactly, and ends by reminding you that categories are nonsense when you're enjoying something this much." "Mr. Wilsey can write in a range of emotional octaves, moving from the comic to the philosophical to the streetwise with ease, while putting body language on his prose to give the reader an almost synesthetic sense of what he's saying." "More Curious captures the dizzying absurdity of contemporary America." "Sean Wilsey's witty essays from his cross-country adventures form a portrait of the weird side of contemporary America." "When Wilsey is at his best, and he often is in More Curious, his prose has a barely contained energy that makes his work both informative and entertaining. And often, whether his subject is rats or NASA or skateboarding or soccer, that work is provocative and huge-hearted." "Sometimes he's funny and self-deprecating and sometimes he's somber; sometimes his scope is as sweeping as our country, and other times it's as narrow as Buzz Aldrin's taste in wristwatches. There's one through-line from beginning to end, though: those careful, thoughtful, perfect sentences." "Generation-defining . . . a welcome chronicle of our age." Now in paperback, with a bonus essay not included in the hardcover edition, here is Sean Wilsey's celebrated collection of essays on the glory and misery, the beauty and absurdity of contemporary America. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wilsey, Sean: - Sean Wilsey is the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir, Oh the Glory of It All, and the coeditor, with Matt Weiland, of State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America and The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup. |