{"product_id":"sweet-heaven-when-i-die-faith-faithlessness-and-the-country-in-between-9780393344233","title":"Sweet Heaven When I Die Faith Faithlessness and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A master investigative stylist and one of the shrewdest commentators on religion’s underexplored realms.”—Michael Washburn, \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brilliant portraits of faith, despair and the fictions that keep people going. . . . [Sharlet’s] often-elegiac prose rumbles with\u003cbr\u003e the fierce rhythms of the blues.\" -- Seven Days\u003cbr\u003e\"The book belongs to the tradition of long-form, narrative journalism best exemplified by writers such as Joan Didion, John McPhee, Norman Mailer and Sharlet’s contemporary David Samuels. Sharlet deserves a place alongside such masters, for he has emerged as a master investigative stylist and one of the shrewdest commentators on religion’s underexplored realms.\" -- Michael Washburn - The Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\"For Sharlet, the story of American religion is not a polarized one of fundamentalists vs. secularists. It’s a vast landscape, and each essay in his remarkable new collection of literary journalism explores a different crag or cranny of it…. There’s no better guide to this ‘country in between.’\" -- Brook Wilensky-Lanford - The Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\"Superb… Compelling… Stunning… A fine book, by a deeply thoughtful writer.\" -- Steve Yarbrough - The Oregonian\u003cbr\u003e\"A Must-Read…. Brilliant portraits of the religious fringe…fleshed out in lush three-dimensional detail—a lifetime in a dozen pages, a biography distilled to its purest elements…. Sharlet impresses with his ability to mine the common humanity that lingers in even the most radically minded thinkers.\" -- The Daily Beast\u003cbr\u003e\"Sharp and intimate.\" -- Rolling Stone\u003cbr\u003e\"The characters in \u003cem\u003eSweet Heaven When I Die\u003c\/em\u003e are rough, unfulfilled, often doomed. But that’s what makes this collection so strong, so human. We always suspect that by the end, they will be betrayed by their beliefs, will be disillusioned or destroyed. But failure doesn’t make belief meaningless. It may be the only thing that gives faith meaning at all.\" -- Kansas City Star\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] collection of beautifully written narratives.... Sharlet's previous works have incisively critiqued fundamentalism and American power; \u003cem\u003eSweet Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e is equally thoughtful, but tender, acknowledging that between the extremes of snake handlers and nihilists, most of us wander through life groping for meaning, with consolation that in the act of finding, we too, may be found.\" -- Durham, NC Independent\u003cbr\u003e\"Part reporter, part prophet, Jeff Sharlet is an American visionary in the lineage that runs from Twain to Robinson Jeffers to Sam Shepard and Joan Didion. In \u003cem\u003eSweet Heaven When I Die\u003c\/em\u003e, he scours the desert margins of our culture, politics, and religion, training his eye on outlaws, anarchists, fanatics, and saints. In this way, he reveals the unexpected shape of our nation’s center, which is to say, our heart.\" -- Peter Trachtenberg, author of 7 Tattoos and The Book of Calamities","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525145534807,"sku":"9780393344233","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393344233.jpg?v=1731859406","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sweet-heaven-when-i-die-faith-faithlessness-and-the-country-in-between-9780393344233","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}