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How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America
Kiese Laymon
Agate Bolden
August 2013
On Sale: July 22, 2013
144 pages
ISBN: 1932841776
EAN: 9781932841770
Kindle: B00BOE16BI
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Non-Fiction
Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique,
stirring, and powerful new voices in American writing.
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is
a collection of his essays, touching on subjects ranging
from family, race, violence, and celebrity to music,
writing, and coming of age in Mississippi. In this
collection, Laymon deals in depth with his own personal
story, which is filled with trials and reflections that
illuminate under-appreciated aspects of contemporary
American life. New and unexpected in contemporary American
writing, Laymon’s voice mixes the colloquial with the
acerbic, while sharp insights and blast-furnace heat calls
to mind a black 21st-century Mark Twain. Much like Twain,
Laymon's writing is steeped in controversial issues both
private and public. This collection introduces Laymon as a
writer who balances volatile concepts on a razor's edge and
chops up much-discussed and often-misunderstood topics with
his scathing humor and fresh, unexpected takes on the
ongoing absurdities, frivolities, and calamities of American
life.
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