I Am Sorry To Think I Have Raised A Timid Son - Softcover

Russell, Kent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472151038 ISBN 13: 9781472151032

Publisher: Corsair, 2015

Synopsis

Kent Russell's essays take him to society's ragged edges - the places where savagery and civilization collide. Perhaps among the misfits and the misunderstood - the losers, the hardcore, the alarming, the crazed, the downright frightening - he can find a way to reconcile his uneasy adult desires and his deepest childhood demons.
He goes 'horrorcore' at a four-day music festival in Illinois. He spends a long weekend getting drunk with a man who claims he has conditioned his body to withstand the bites of the most venomous snakes. He finds a castaway on a tiny atoll off the coast of Australia. He explores the Amish obsession with baseball.
Bristling with violence, tragedy and humour and wit, I Am Sorry To Think I Have Raised A Timid Son is a raw personal journey and an unforgettable portrait of masculinity in our time, by a ferociously brilliant and distinctive young voice in literary nonfiction.

About this title

About the Author

KENT RUSSELL's essays have appeared in The New Republic, Harper's, GQ, n+1, The Believer, and Grantland.

From the Back Cover

'Kent Russell is one of the most excitingly gifted young non-fiction writers to have appeared in recent memory' John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead
'Exhilarating' Financial Times

'A surprising, beautiful book, at once tough and tender, hilarious and dark, and above all, deeply original.' NPR.org

'A ludicrously smart, tragicomic man-on-the-edge memoir in essays.' Vanity Fair

From the Inside Flap

Kent Russell's essays take him to society's ragged edges - the places where savagery and civilization collide. Perhaps among the misfits and the misunderstood - the losers, the hardcore, the alarming, the crazed, the downright frightening - he can find a way to reconcile his uneasy adult desires and his deepest childhood demons.
He goes 'horrorcore' at a four-day music festival in Illinois. He spends a long weekend getting drunk with a man who claims he has conditioned his body to withstand the bites of the most venomous snakes. He finds a castaway on a tiny atoll off the cost of Australia. He explores the Amish obsession with baseball.
Bristling with violence, tragedy and humour and wit, I Am Sorry To Think I Have Raised A Timid Son is a raw personal journey and an unforgettable portrait of masculinity in our time, by a ferociously brilliant and distinctive young voice in literary nonfiction.

Edition details

• Publisher: Corsair
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472151038
• ISBN 13: 9781472151032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304