Only Love Can Break Your Heart

Fiction & Literature, Literary
Cover of the book Only Love Can Break Your Heart by David Samuels, Tantor Media, Inc.
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: David Samuels ISBN: 1230000222554
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc. Publication: April 27, 2012
Imprint: Language: English
Author: David Samuels
ISBN: 1230000222554
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Publication: April 27, 2012
Imprint:
Language: English

Writing for Harper's Magazine and The New Yorker over the last decade, David Samuels has penned a disillusioned love song to the often amusing and sometimes fatal American habit of self-delusion, reporting from a landscape peopled by salesmen, dreamers, radical environmentalists, suburban hip-hop stars, demolition experts, aging baseball legends, billionaire crackpots, and dog track bettors whose heartbreaking failures and occasional successes are illuminated by flashes of anger and humor.

Including profiles of disillusioned Pacific Northwest radicals and Nevada nuclear test site workers alongside coverage of Pentagon press conferences and the Super Bowl in Detroit, Only Love Can Break Your Heart proves Samuels to be a wonderful inheritor of the great journalistic tradition established by Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, and Joan Didion in the 1960s. This first collection of his painstakingly reported and wildly inventive writing reveals the full spectrum of his talents, as well as an unusual sensitivity to both the tragic and comic dissonances bubbling up from the gap between the American promise of endless nirvana and the lives of ordinary citizens who struggle to live out their dreams.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Writing for Harper's Magazine and The New Yorker over the last decade, David Samuels has penned a disillusioned love song to the often amusing and sometimes fatal American habit of self-delusion, reporting from a landscape peopled by salesmen, dreamers, radical environmentalists, suburban hip-hop stars, demolition experts, aging baseball legends, billionaire crackpots, and dog track bettors whose heartbreaking failures and occasional successes are illuminated by flashes of anger and humor.

Including profiles of disillusioned Pacific Northwest radicals and Nevada nuclear test site workers alongside coverage of Pentagon press conferences and the Super Bowl in Detroit, Only Love Can Break Your Heart proves Samuels to be a wonderful inheritor of the great journalistic tradition established by Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, and Joan Didion in the 1960s. This first collection of his painstakingly reported and wildly inventive writing reveals the full spectrum of his talents, as well as an unusual sensitivity to both the tragic and comic dissonances bubbling up from the gap between the American promise of endless nirvana and the lives of ordinary citizens who struggle to live out their dreams.

More books from Literary

Cover of the book Contesting the Monument: The Anti-illusionist Italian Historical Novel: No. 10 by David Samuels
Cover of the book The Brave Houseboy by David Samuels
Cover of the book Life With Archie #20 by David Samuels
Cover of the book The God of Gods: A Canadian Play by David Samuels
Cover of the book Yours Truly, Hugh Downs by David Samuels
Cover of the book Bounty Gun by David Samuels
Cover of the book Prime jeunesse by David Samuels
Cover of the book The Theater of Lee Blessing by David Samuels
Cover of the book Please Do Not Disturb by David Samuels
Cover of the book Chacho by David Samuels
Cover of the book The Geek’s Guide to the Writing Life by David Samuels
Cover of the book Once into the Night by David Samuels
Cover of the book Mensen van licht en steen by David Samuels
Cover of the book El Viejo y El Mar (Spanish Edition) by David Samuels
Cover of the book Srikanta (Hindi) by David Samuels
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy