Thin places
Uiterlijk 6 december in huis
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
A Lit Hub | Chicago Review | Ms. Magazine March pick
A Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Book
In this perceptive and provocative essay collection, an award-winning writer shares her personal and reportorial investigation into Americas search for meaning
When Jordan Kisner was a child, she was saved by Jesus Christ at summer camp, much to the confusion of her nonreligious family. She was, she writes, just naturally reverent, a fact that didnt change when shemuch to her own confusionlost her faith as a teenager. Not sure why her religious conviction had come or where it had gone, she did what anyone would do: You go about the great American work of assigning yourself to other gods: yoga, talk radio, neoatheism, CrossFit, cleanses, football, the academy, the American Dream, Beyoncé.
A curiosity about the subtle systems guiding contemporary life pervades Kisners work. Her celebrated essay Thin Places (Best American Essays 2016), about an experimental neurosurgery developed to treat severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, asks how putting the neural touchpoint of the soul on a pacemaker may collide science and psychology with philosophical questions about illness, the limits of the self, and spiritual transformation. How should she understand the appearance of her own obsessive compulsive disorder at the very age she lost her faith?
Intellectually curious and emotionally engaging, the essays in Thin Places manage to be both intimate and expansive, illuminating an unusual facet of American life, as well as how it reverberates with the authors past and present preoccupations.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 13 april 2021
Aantal pagina's: 272
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Jordan Kisner
Hoofduitgeverij: Picador USA
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 135 mm
Product hoogte: 23 mm
Product lengte: 208 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 135 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 21 mm
Verpakking lengte: 208 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 490 g
EAN: 9781250785909