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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon (Hardcover, 2016)

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'I was stunned into stillness' Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist 'I've had guns pulled on me by four people under Central Mississippi skies - once by a white undercover cop, once by a young brother trying to rob me for the left-overs of a weak work-study check, once by my mother and twice by myself. Not sure how or if I've helped many folks say yes to life, but I've definitely aided in a few folks dying slowly in America, all without the aid of a gun' Kiese Laymon grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. That was where he started to write and where he began to seek to create an honest account of living in the US, a country striving to declare itself multi-cultural, post-racial and mostly innocent. This is that account. Drawing on his own personal experiences, these essays are Laymon's attempt to deal with many issues occupying America today, from race, identity and writing to music, celebrity and violence. Through letters between his own disparate family members, pleas to performers whose voices will never be heard again, recollections of his own failure to become a world-famous emcee, analysis of the growing culture of fear in the media and detailed accounts of his clashes with an education system that has both advanced and failed the generation he grew up in, Laymon gets closer not only to the truth behind himself, but to the promises behind the promised land. Searing and passionate, this timely collection of essays introduces a vibrant new voice in US literature and offers a unique insight into the forces that are tearing America apart today.

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Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13
9781408868164
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221191418

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Book Title
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
Author
Kiese Laymon
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literary Theory
Publication Year
2016
Number of Pages
160 Pages

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216mm
Item Width
135mm
Item Weight
288g

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Kiese Laymon
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon (Hardcover, 2016)

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