{"product_id":"farewell-transmission-9781950539727","title":"Farewell Transmission","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFarewell Transmission\u003c\/i\u003e, Will McGrath guides us on a rambling quest into the\nenlightenment of other lives. Funny and weird, heartbreaking and galvanizing,\nthese essays take us from Yemen to Lesotho to the Bronx and beyond. We find\nCaravaggio at an Arizona homeless shelter and Elvis in rural Canada. We meet\nstreet preachers and diamond miners and professional wrestlers and\nex-cons—those wilderness prophets too frequently cropped from the picture and\npushed out of the frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis\nis a book of hiddenness: of secret lives and inscrutable passions, of ghost\nstories and hallucinations, of excavations into landscapes rarely seen. Whether\nhe’s unraveling the mysterious history of a noose in Namibia or rambling\nthrough the Driftless Area with a modern-day goatherd, Will McGrath is in search\nof the invisible forces that bind us across our wondrous and troubling planet.\nLike John Jeremiah Sullivan’s \u003ci\u003ePulphead\u003c\/i\u003e and Leslie Jamison’s \u003ci\u003eThe\nEmpathy Exams\u003c\/i\u003e, these dispatches pulse with electric prose and vivid\ncharacters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eFarewell Transmission \u003c\/i\u003eis a book about paying attention: to the concealed lives and hidden worlds we\nencounter every day.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Will McGrath","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49074060067067,"sku":"9781950539727","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/farewell-transmission-9781950539727","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}