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Lonesome Rangers: Homeless Minds, Promised Lands, Fugitive Cultures John Leonard First edition
Lonesome Rangers: Homeless Minds, Promised Lands, Fugitive Cultures
John Leonard
An exciting and far-reaching new book on writers and exile by the leading literary critic. John Leonard, "the fastest wit in the East" (The New York Times Book Review), is back with the off-beat, wide-ranging style that earned his last book, When the Kissing Had to Stop, a place among the Voice Literary Supplement's "25 Favorites of 1999." Now, with an eye to the social and political experience of writers, Leonard adopts a broad definition of exile. He addresses Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone, where exile manifests itself in solitary bowling, a reflection of a declining sense of community. He considers Salman Rushdie as rock'n'roll Orpheus, who?after ten years in fatwa-enforced exile?bears a striking resemblance to his continually disappearing characters. And Leonard also explores Primo Levi's exile of survival, Bruce Chatwin's self-imposed exile in travel, as well as the work of Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Phillip Roth, Barbara Kingsolver, and Don DeLillo, among others. As always, Leonard's writing jumps off the page, engaging the reader in what the Washington Post calls his "laugh-out-loud magic with words."
352 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 21, 2002 |
| ISBN13 | 9781565846944 |
| Publishers | The New Press |
| Pages | 352 |
| Dimensions | 139 × 209 × 210 mm · 524 g |
| Language | English |
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