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Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, And The Country In Between (2011)

by Jeff Sharlet(Favorite Author)
3.7 of 5 Votes: 5
ISBN
0393079635 (ISBN13: 9780393079630)
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English
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W. W. Norton & Company
review 1: Wonderful, well written essays about American belief in all its forms. Sharlet is a master of literary nonfiction, and his deep ability to understand and empathize with people, regardless of ideology, shines through. Read it for the essays about murdered American anarchist Brad Wills, evangelical youth concerts, hell houses, public intellectual Cornel West's death consciousness, and a new-age priestess who - what else? - helps New York real estate sell. This book inspires a wonderful amazement at American (mostly) humanity and religious conviction.
review 2: This is a series of essay spun off from Sharlet's forthcoming work on American religion--his visit to a hippie ex-girlfriend now a gun-toting DA for a Colorado county, talking to Cornel West over cognac abo
... moreut the Matrix, his suits and his brief connection to Ethiopian royalty, a redneck funeral/drunken potato throwing brawl in Lancaster County Pennsylvania, his anarchist friend Brad's ultimately successful baiting of the Oaxacan police to kill him, the life of Yiddish novelist Chava Rosenfarb, a fundamentalist evangelical service in Berlin, Real-Estate cleansing specialists at the the New Age Expo in New York and the inside workings of Clear Channel's radio and music venue monopoly. less
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Xoislandsurf
Sharlet writes beautiful sentences; worth it for the Cornel West profile alone.
gabby
A compelling collection of well written essays. Funny, scary, insightful.
DennisH
Not at all what I was expecting, but very interesting and well written.
debbie
Lovely (if slightly dry) essays about faith.
Nick
Interesting, but not my cup of tea.
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