{"product_id":"the-last-street-before-cleveland-9780803254749","title":"The Last Street Before Cleveland","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe old neighborhood was the place that Joe Mackall left. It was a place where everyone's parents worked at the factory at the dead end of the street, where the Catholic church operated like a religious city hall, and where he grew up vowing to get out as soon as he could and to shed his blue-collar beginnings and failed, flawed religion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A candid portrayal that oftentimes paints Mackall in a bad light, but he refused to back down from the truth.\"—\u003ci\u003eCollegian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Powerfully imagined and poetically told.\"—George Fetherling, \u003ci\u003eNew Brunswick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Last Street Before Cleveland\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply personal book and one that packs a lot of emotion and power in a slim volume. . . . Well worth reading.\"—Kevin Holtsberry, \u003ci\u003eCollected Miscellany\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Joe Mackall's \u003ci\u003eThe Last Street Before Cleveland\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome addition to the necessary literature of America's working class. He gives voice to men we wrongly think of as silent and he respects the enormity of the loss. He shows us, in tender, muscular prose, how glorious and arduous roots can be. In his own journey back to understanding, he complicates the meaning of leaving and finding our deepest homes.\"—Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of \u003ci\u003eRandom Family\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beautifully written—honest, naked, graceful.\"—Brian Doyle, author of \u003ci\u003eLeaping: Revelations and Epiphanies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Joe Mackall has written a stunning blue-collar memoir of recovery that goes far beyond the conventional dependency narrative. There is more at issue in \u003ci\u003eThe Last Street Before Cleveland\u003c\/i\u003e than the struggle for sobriety, sanity, and well-being, since his quest isn’t so much a matter of recovery 'from' as it is recovery 'of.' What Mackall recovers is (to borrow Rudolf Otto’s classic title) 'the idea of the holy,' or, as others might put it, 'the overabounding.' The extraordinary account of how this happens adds a new and exciting episode to the variety of American religious experience.\"—Robert Atwan, editor of the \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e series\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[No TOC]","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405260923223,"sku":"9780803254749","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803254749.jpg?v=1730489321","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-last-street-before-cleveland-9780803254749","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}