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The honesty in these pages is a tonic to the poisoned dream we often overlook as other peoples' lives. Sunshine state is a fierce, vulnerable, imaginative reveal of the original wound. You're stunned at how much is going on around you and within each ... Read More
Bff is a truly extraordinary essay, and the writing in the whole book is really a cut above. Paralyzing and exquisite. Thought provoking and incredibly smart. Crosses the spectrum from poetically candid to concrete and investigative.
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The first chapter is so bad i can't even describe - you'd have to read it yourself. The transitions between sections within one essay are unnatural. Even her essay about her wild times as a teenager using drugs & promiscuity is surprisingly boring... Read More
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This book truly blew my mind in its diversity of content and yet the depth of the overarching these explored in it
Her essays are incredibly detailed and textural a real treasure in the map and understanding of florida and the idea of place
Upon finishing i realized that the book taken as a whole has the common thread of really following the development and thought ... Read More
Once i started it i found it hard to set aside
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- This product had a total of 124 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 21 2024.
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Its more than a book to me
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Gerards florida is peopled with good but naive citizens who are working to find their way through their lives via suspect businesses and real estate deals nontraditional religions environmental efforts and caring for the homeless
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There is also a very honest autobiographical essay in the collection—34records34—and in it gerard writes about her troubled early life with an honesty rare among other essayists so many other writers these days try to be a little too cute
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I couldnt wait to get my hands on it especially after the great essay in granta and it does not disappoint
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What i didnt know was the background of most
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Theres nothing timid or incipient about gerards voice—shes selfassured and sure to become a powerhouse writer in the years to come
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The sunshine state is an interesting glimpse into the bizarre and unimaginable of living in florida
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I read it every minute i could spare
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