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Gegen Ende seines Lebens wird der altgediente Sportreporter Mike Sullivan von seinem Sohn gefragt, was ihm aus drei Jahrzehnten auf nordamerikanischen Pressetribünen am deutlichsten in Erinnerung geblieben sei. Die Antwort überrascht: »Ich habe 73 Secretariat beim Derby rennen sehen. Das war reine ... Schönheit, verstehst du?«John Jeremiah Sullivan versteht gar nichts. Also verbringt er die nächsten zwei Jahre damit, der väterlichen Begeisteru...

A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape, from high to low to lower than low, from this rising star on the American literary scene.

Named A Best Book of 2011 by the New York Times, Time Magazine, the Boston Globe and Entertainment WeeklyA sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape-from high to low to lower than low-by the award-winning young star of the literary nonfiction world.In Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on an exhilarating tour of our popular, unpopular, and at times completely forgotten culture. Simultaneously channeling the gonzo ...

Vor knapp 300 Jahren hielten sich zwei amerikanische Ureinwohner - angeblich adlige Prinzen aus derGegend des späteren Carolina - über mehrere Jahre in Dresden auf: Savase Oke Charinge und TusskeeStannagee wurden dem sächsischen Publikum als Sensation präsentiert und zunehmend zum Gegenstandpolitischer und religiöser Interessen. Wie kommen zwei "amerikanische Prinzen" an den Hof August desStarken? Was wie ein Rätsel klingt, ist der Ausgangspun...

Una sera, mentre lo assiste al suo capezzale, John Jeremiah Sullivan chiede al padre Mike, che ha passato la vita a scrivere di sport dopo aver rinunciato a ogni ambizione poetica, quale sia stato il momento più straordinario della sua carriera. «Ero al Derby di Secretariat, nel '73» risponde Mike. «È stato... pura bellezza». John è nato a pochi passi dalla sede del Kentucky Derby, la celebre corsa riservata ai purosangue di tre anni d'età, ep...

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Kann man ganz Amerika in ein Buch packen? Geschichte und Gegenwart? Popkultur und Frömmigkeit? Glänzende Oberfläche und enttäuschte Versprechen? Mit »Pulphead« hat John Jeremiah Sullivan bewiesen, dass das möglich ist. In der Tradition von Meistern wie Tom Wolfe und Hunter S. Thompson verwischt er die Grenze zwischen Literatur und Journalismus, Erzählung und Reportage, Hochliteratur und Unterhaltung, Hemingway und Hollywood. Wie in einem Panop...

John Jeremiah Sullivan is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the southern editor of The Paris Review. He writes for GQ, Harper's Magazine, and Oxford American, and is the author of Blood Horses and Pulphead. Sullivan lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.

The forgotten history of a colonial-era Utopia resonates to the present day in this epic of narrative nonfiction in the tradition of David Grann's The Lost City of Z and Rinker Buck's The Oregon TrailIn 1735, charismatic German lawyer and accused atheist Christian Gottlieb Priber fled Germany, under threat of arrest, bound for colonial South Carolina. When he arrived, he sold his possessions and hiked 400 miles west, into the woods of what is ...

The forgotten history of a colonial-era Utopia resonates to the present day in this epic of narrative nonfiction in the tradition of David Grann's The Lost City of Z and Rinker Buck's The Oregon TrailIn 1735, charismatic German lawyer and accused atheist Christian Gottlieb Priber fled Germany, under threat of arrest, bound for colonial South Carolina. When he arrived, he sold his possessions and hiked 400 miles west, into the woods of what is ...

In questo libro tutto è stato visto, ascoltato, e soprattutto vissuto, non c'è nulla di inventato. Le storie della gente comune, i segreti di celebrità inarrivabili e di oscure personalità del passato, i dettagli di eventi apocalittici che travolgono il territorio e le persone. Scrittore e reporter errante, Sullivan ci presenta vicende e personaggi che sfiorano l'incredibile: da Constantine Rafinesque, eccentrico genio del diciottesimo secolo ...

Sullivan has found the transcendent in the horse."--"Sports Illustrated" Winner of a 2004 Whiting Writers' Award One evening late in his life, veteran sportswriter Mike Sullivan was asked by his son what he remembered best from his three decades in the press box. The answer came as a surprise. "I was at Secretariat's Derby, in '73. That was ... just beauty, you know?" John Jeremiah Sullivan didn't know, not really-but he spent two years findin...

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