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Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnut's WarAgainst the GAP, and Other Adventures with the Totally Lost Tribes of America
Putnam
April 2009
On Sale: April 2, 2009
352 pages
ISBN: 0399155740
EAN: 9780399155741
Hardcover
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From the award-winning and New York Times–bestselling
author of Generation Kill, a reporter’s immersion in
outsider cultures—“His style owes more to Hunter S.
Thompson than to any sort of political correctness”
(Newsday). From his work as a reporter at Hustler magazine, to his
National Magazine Award–winning writing for Rolling Stone
and Vanity Fair, Evan Wright has always had an affinity for
outsiders—what he calls “the lost tribes of America.” The
previously published pieces in this collection chart a
deeply personal journey, beginning with his stark but
sympathetic portrayals of sex workers in Porn Valley,
through his raw portrait of a Hollywood überagent-turned-
war documentarian and hero of America’s far right. Along
the way, Wright encounters runaway teens earning corporate
dollars as skateboard pitchmen; radical anarchists plotting
the overthrow of corporate America; and young American
troops on the hunt for terrorists in the combat zones of
the Middle East. His subjects are people for whom the
American dream is either just out of grasp, or something
they’ve chosen to reject altogether. Sometimes frightening,
usually profane, and often darkly comic, Hella Nation is
Evan Wright’s meticulously observed tour of the jagged
edges of all those other Americas hiding in plain sight
amid the nation’s malls and gated communities. The
collection also includes an all-new, autobiographical
introductory essay by the author.
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