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      Can civilization save us from ourselves? In this book, that is the question the author asks in a series of six letters written during dark nights of the soul.

      ''What a nutjob!'' - Geoff Dyer

      ''Questions that occurred to me as I read this brilliant...

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      Product ID:9781910702369
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:The Correspondence
      Authors:Author: J. D. Daniels
      Page Count:144
      Subjects:Diaries, letters and journals, Diaries, letters & journals, Memoirs, Literary essays, Memoirs, Literary essays
      Description:Select Guide Rating
      Can civilization save us from ourselves? In this book, that is the question the author asks in a series of six letters written during dark nights of the soul.

      ''What a nutjob!'' - Geoff Dyer

      ''Questions that occurred to me as I read this brilliant, baffling book: What the hell is this? Who the hell is this? Is this poetry?'' - Tom Bissell


      Can civilization save us from ourselves? That is the question J. D. Daniels asks in his first book, a series of six letters written during dark nights of the soul. Working from his own highly varied experience – as a janitor, night watchman, adjunct professor, drunk, exterminator, dutiful son –he considers how far books and learning and psychoanalysis can get us, and how much we’re stuck in the mud.

      In prose wound as tight as a copper spring, Daniels takes us from the highways of his native Kentucky to the Balearic Islands and from the Pampas of Brazil to the rarefied precincts of Cambridge, Massachusetts. His travelling companions include psychotic kindergarten teachers, Israeli sailors, and Southern Baptists on fire for Christ. In each dispatch, Daniels takes risks – not just literary (voice, tone, form) but also more immediate, such as spending two years on a Brazilian jiu-jitsu team (he gets beaten to a pulp, repeatedly) or participating in group psychoanalysis (where he goes temporarily insane).

      Daniels is that rare thing, a writer completely in earnest whose wit never deserts him, even in extremis. Inventive, intimate, restless, streetwise and erudite, The Correspondence introduces a brave and original observer of the inner life under pressure.


      Imprint Name:Jonathan Cape Ltd
      Publisher Name:Vintage Publishing
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2017-04-06

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      Weight176 g
      Dimensions137 × 216 × 12 mm