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A Life Out of Whack, Volume 5: Confessions and Reflexions of an Un-American All-American

By Les Essif

Book information

Publisher
Guernica World Editions
Year
2018
ISBN
9781771833158, 2017964713, 9781771833165, 9781771833172, 1771833157
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
782 kB (800543 bytes)
Pages
425\0
Time added
2021-12-14 13:20:02

Description

"The book has two parts. The first part is autobiographical and sketches the atypical early life of a future academic scholar from family poverty to marriage and divorce at nineteen, from eight years in big-city and federal law enforcement to starting college at the age of twenty-six, culminating with a doctoral fellowship in French Studies at Brown U. The second part presents an alternative critical look at contemporary life and ethos in general and American culture in particular. Fashioned from a journal I've kept since the events of 9/11, it consists primarily of my reflections and positions on a wide variety of philosophical, political, and cultural subjects, such as aging, nature, corporate capitalism, and American, French, and global cultures."--

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