Evan Wright has always had an affinity for outsiders - the people he calls 'the lost tribes of America'. Over the course of his career as an award-winning journalist, he has written about men and women with completely opposing attitudes towards today's dominant culture. But they all agree on one thing: they don't fit in.
Hella Nation charts Wright's deeply personal journey, from his stark but sympathetic portrayals of sex workers in Porn Valley to his raw portrait of a Hollywood über-agent turned war documentarian and hero of America's far right. Along the way he meets runaway teens in Hollywood earning corporate dollars as skateboard pitchmen, radical anarchists plotting the overthrow of capitalism from tree-sits in the Oregon rainforest and young American troops on the hunt for terrorists in the combat zones of the Middle East. His subjects are people for whom The American Dream is either just out of grasp, or something they have chosen to reject altogether.
Sometimes frightening, usually profane, and often darkly comic, Hella Nation is Wright's meticulously observed tour of the jagged edges of all those other Americas hiding in plain sight.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 352 pages. light wear, sticker residue on front, light foxingHELLA NATION: In Search of the Lost Tribes of AmericaBy Evan WrightBantam Press, UK, 2009IS BN 9780593064559Trade Paperback, 352 pagesVERY GOOD: light wear, sticker residue on front, light foxingTake a tour of the lost tribes of America with the bestselling author of Generation Kill. Evan Wright has always had an affinit y with outsiders - what he calls 'the lost tribes of America'. In Hella Nation, he takes us on a deeply personal journey to meet p eople for whom the American dream is either just out of grasp, or something they have chosen to reject altogether. From radical an archists plotting the overthrow of capitalism and his stark but s ympathetic portraits of sex workers in Porn Valley to runaway tee ns earning a living as skateboard pitchmen and young American tro ops on the hunt for terrorists in Afghanistan. Sometimes frighten ing, usually profane, and often darkly comic, Hella Nation is Wri ght's meticulously observed account of the jagged edges of all th ose other Americas hiding in plain sight amid the nation's malls and gated communities. Seller Inventory # 1141c