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The Sprawl - Paperback By Diamond, Jason - GOOD
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- Condition
- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9781566895828
- Book Title
- Sprawl
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- History, Social Science
- Topic
- Social History, Popular Culture
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 11.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and again, the story is one of gems formed under pressure and that resentment of the suburbs is the key ingredient for creative transcendence. But what if, contrary to that, the suburb has actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as positively and as surely as in any other cultural hothouse? Mixing personal experience, cultural reportage, and history while rejecting clichés and pieties and these essays stretch across the country in an effort to show that this uniquely American milieu deserves another look.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Coffee House Press
ISBN-10
1566895820
ISBN-13
9781566895828
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28038748127
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sprawl
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Social History, Popular Culture
Publication Year
2020
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
11.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ht352.U6d52 2020
Reviews
Praise for Jason Diamond "Tells a heartbreaking story of restless youth, imposter syndrome, and the movies that help him make sense of it all. . . . Makes me want to tell my parents and children how much I love them . . . and then curl up on the couch and watch The Breakfast Club." --Emma Straub, author of the New York Times bestsellers Modern Lovers and The Vacationers "With geniality, humor and charm, Diamond explores the ways in which cinematic fantasy can influence, overshadow, and help us to escape reality. This book is for anyone playing out an eternal adolescence." --Melissa Broder, author of So Sad Today "Jason Diamond writes with equal parts wit and candor about what happens when life diverges wildly from the suburban fairy tales made popular by John Hughes. Diamond passionately conveys how lovely it is when we find less cinematic but harder earned happy endings on our own terms." --Maris Kreizman, author of Slaughterhouse 90210 "Oh look, it's all my favorite things in one book: Chicago, New York City, punk rock, food, and existential crises...Bittersweet, charming and hilarious...details the longing and struggle of an aspiring writer with clarity, wit, and heart." --Jami Attenberg, New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins and Saint Mazie "Both funny and heartbreaking, Diamond's memoir is not just an account of how one director's films impacted-and perhaps saved-his life. It is also a memorable reflection on what it means to let go of the past and grow up. A quirkily intelligent memoir of finding oneself in movies." --Kirkus, "For those of us who grew up outside of the suburbs, or encased by suburbs, there may have been a longing to understand their interior. The Sprawl is such a generous book for how it both acknowledges the privileges of boundary but also demystifies the small living moments that take place within. This is a warm and thoughtful book that doesn't just coast on beauty and nostalgia without challenging both." --Hanif Abdurraqib "Thoughtful, well-researched, and beautifully rendered, The Sprawl is a book that offers us insight into the suburban spaces that define America. Throughout each chapter, Diamond manages to be both generous and unsparing, funny and deeply thorough, in his analysis of the parking lots, privilege, and prejudice that infuse the America of our childhoods. The Sprawl is a necessary cultural analysis for understanding who we are as a nation and what we will become." --Lyz Lenz "Jason Diamond instinctively understands how the American suburb has shaped the American psyche, somehow both softening and igniting it--he sees the depravity and ennui that Cheever immortalized, but also the odd beauty of mowed lawns and food courts and paved driveways. A child of the suburbs myself, I devoured this smart, probing, and deeply human meditation on what it means to be promised comfort, and what it feels like to tear yourself apart trying to escape it." --Amanda Petrusich "Tells a heartbreaking story of restless youth, imposter syndrome, and the movies that help him make sense of it all. . . . Makes me want to tell my parents and children how much I love them . . . and then curl up on the couch and watch The Breakfast Club." --Emma Straub, author of the New York Times bestsellers Modern Lovers and The Vacationers "With geniality, humor and charm, Diamond explores the ways in which cinematic fantasy can influence, overshadow, and help us to escape reality. This book is for anyone playing out an eternal adolescence." --Melissa Broder, author of So Sad Today "Jason Diamond writes with equal parts wit and candor about what happens when life diverges wildly from the suburban fairy tales made popular by John Hughes. Diamond passionately conveys how lovely it is when we find less cinematic but harder earned happy endings on our own terms." --Maris Kreizman, author of Slaughterhouse 90210 "Oh look, it's all my favorite things in one book: Chicago, New York City, punk rock, food, and existential crises...Bittersweet, charming and hilarious...details the longing and struggle of an aspiring writer with clarity, wit, and heart." --Jami Attenberg, New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins and Saint Mazie "Both funny and heartbreaking, Diamond's memoir is not just an account of how one director's films impacted-and perhaps saved-his life. It is also a memorable reflection on what it means to let go of the past and grow up. A quirkily intelligent memoir of finding oneself in movies." --Kirkus, "Despite the many stereotypes about the conformity of the suburbs, Chicago-area native Jason Diamond sees these borderland communities as the 'incubator for distinctly American art' . . . The Sprawl is precisely within Diamond's personal wheelhouse." --The Week "For those of us who grew up outside of the suburbs, or encased by suburbs, there may have been a longing to understand their interior. The Sprawl is such a generous book for how it both acknowledges the privileges of boundary but also demystifies the small living moments that take place within. This is a warm and thoughtful book that doesn't just coast on beauty and nostalgia without challenging both." --Hanif Abdurraqib "Thoughtful, well-researched, and beautifully rendered, The Sprawl is a book that offers us insight into the suburban spaces that define America. Throughout each chapter, Diamond manages to be both generous and unsparing, funny and deeply thorough, in his analysis of the parking lots, privilege, and prejudice that infuse the America of our childhoods. The Sprawl is a necessary cultural analysis for understanding who we are as a nation and what we will become." --Lyz Lenz "Jason Diamond instinctively understands how the American suburb has shaped the American psyche, somehow both softening and igniting it--he sees the depravity and ennui that Cheever immortalized, but also the odd beauty of mowed lawns and food courts and paved driveways. A child of the suburbs myself, I devoured this smart, probing, and deeply human meditation on what it means to be promised comfort, and what it feels like to tear yourself apart trying to escape it." --Amanda Petrusich "Tells a heartbreaking story of restless youth, imposter syndrome, and the movies that help him make sense of it all. . . . Makes me want to tell my parents and children how much I love them . . . and then curl up on the couch and watch The Breakfast Club." --Emma Straub, author of the New York Times bestsellers Modern Lovers and The Vacationers "With geniality, humor and charm, Diamond explores the ways in which cinematic fantasy can influence, overshadow, and help us to escape reality. This book is for anyone playing out an eternal adolescence." --Melissa Broder, author of So Sad Today "Jason Diamond writes with equal parts wit and candor about what happens when life diverges wildly from the suburban fairy tales made popular by John Hughes. Diamond passionately conveys how lovely it is when we find less cinematic but harder earned happy endings on our own terms." --Maris Kreizman, author of Slaughterhouse 90210 "Oh look, it's all my favorite things in one book: Chicago, New York City, punk rock, food, and existential crises...Bittersweet, charming and hilarious...details the longing and struggle of an aspiring writer with clarity, wit, and heart." --Jami Attenberg, New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins and Saint Mazie "Both funny and heartbreaking, Diamond's memoir is not just an account of how one director's films impacted-and perhaps saved-his life. It is also a memorable reflection on what it means to let go of the past and grow up. A quirkily intelligent memoir of finding oneself in movies." --Kirkus, "For those of us who grew up outside of the suburbs, or encased by suburbs, there may have been a longing to understand their interior. The Sprawl is such a generous book for how it both acknowledges the privileges of boundary but also demystifies the small living moments that take place within. This is a warm and thoughtful book that doesn't just coast on beauty and nostalgia without challenging both." --Hanif Abdurraqib Praise for Jason Diamond "Thoughtful, well-researched, and beautifully rendered, The Sprawl is a book that offers us insight into the suburban spaces that define America. Throughout each chapter, Diamond manages to be both generous and unsparing, funny and deeply thorough, in his analysis of the parking lots, privilege, and prejudice that infuse the America of our childhoods. The Sprawl is a necessary cultural analysis for understanding who we are as a nation and what we will become." --Lyz Lenz "Tells a heartbreaking story of restless youth, imposter syndrome, and the movies that help him make sense of it all. . . . Makes me want to tell my parents and children how much I love them . . . and then curl up on the couch and watch The Breakfast Club." --Emma Straub, author of the New York Times bestsellers Modern Lovers and The Vacationers "With geniality, humor and charm, Diamond explores the ways in which cinematic fantasy can influence, overshadow, and help us to escape reality. This book is for anyone playing out an eternal adolescence." --Melissa Broder, author of So Sad Today "Jason Diamond writes with equal parts wit and candor about what happens when life diverges wildly from the suburban fairy tales made popular by John Hughes. Diamond passionately conveys how lovely it is when we find less cinematic but harder earned happy endings on our own terms." --Maris Kreizman, author of Slaughterhouse 90210 "Oh look, it's all my favorite things in one book: Chicago, New York City, punk rock, food, and existential crises...Bittersweet, charming and hilarious...details the longing and struggle of an aspiring writer with clarity, wit, and heart." --Jami Attenberg, New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins and Saint Mazie "Both funny and heartbreaking, Diamond's memoir is not just an account of how one director's films impacted-and perhaps saved-his life. It is also a memorable reflection on what it means to let go of the past and grow up. A quirkily intelligent memoir of finding oneself in movies." --Kirkus
Lccn
2020-015243
Dewey Decimal
307.740973
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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