000			02238cam a22003258a 4500
001			ocn706020933
003			OCoLC
005			20200214154800.0
008			110622s2011 nyu 000 0 eng
010			_a 2011024875
020			_a0374532907 _qpaperback
020			_a9780374532901 _qpaperback
035			_a(OCoLC)706020933
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _dBTCTA _dYDXCP _dJAO _dMiTN
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aAC8 _b.S78135 2011
084			_aLCO010000 _aSOC022000 _aSOC041000 _2bisacsh
092			_a080 Su54P 2011
100	1		_aSullivan, John Jeremiah, _d1974-
245	1	0	_aPulphead : _bessays / _cJohn Jeremiah Sullivan.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, _c2011.
300			_a369 pages ; _c19 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_a"A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape--from high to low to lower than low. John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on an exhilarating tour of our popular, unpopular, and at times completely forgotten culture. Simultaneously channeling the gonzo energy of Hunter S. Thompson and the wit and insight of Joan Didion, Sullivan shows us--with a laidback, erudite Southern charm that's all his own--how we really live now. In his native Kentucky, Sullivan introduces us to Constantine Rafinesque, a nineteenth-century polymath genius who concocted a dense, fantastical prehistory of the New World. Back in modern times, Sullivan takes us to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the alumni and straggling refugees of MTV's Real World, who've generated their own self-perpetuating economy of minor celebrity; and all across the South on the trail of the blues. He takes us to Indiana to investigate the formative years of Michael Jackson and Axl Rose and then to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Katrina--and back again as its residents confront the BP oil spill. Gradually, a unifying narrative emerges, a story about this country that we've never heard told this way."--Provided by publisher.
655		0	_aEssays.
999			_c236645 _d236645