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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)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

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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