{"product_id":"9781950539505","title":"Mystery Is Not Despair","description":"Author: Will McGrath\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781950539505\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Dzanc Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 15 Nov 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFarewell Transmission\u003c\/i\u003e, Will McGrath guides us on a rambling quest into the enlightenment of other lives. Funny and heartbreaking, intimate and galvanizing, these essays venture from Yemen to Lesotho to the Bronx and beyond. We find Caravaggio at an Arizona homeless shelter and meet Elvis in rural Canada. We encounter diamond miners and professional wrestlers, night watchmen and righteous ex-cons-those wilderness prophets too frequently cropped from the picture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book of hiddenness: of secret lives and ghost stories and obscure passions. Whether he's unraveling the fraught history of a noose in Namibia or wandering the Driftless Area with a modern-day goatherd, McGrath is on an excavation into landscapes rarely seen. Like Leslie Jamison's \u003ci\u003eThe Empathy Exams\u003c\/i\u003e and John Jeremiah Sullivan's \u003ci\u003ePulphead\u003c\/i\u003e, these essays pulse with electric prose and vivid characters, seeking out the invisible forces that bind us across our wondrous and troubling planet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFarewell Transmission\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about paying attention: to the concealed lives we encounter every day, and to the hidden worlds that exist within our own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46867133333662,"sku":"ADS-9781950539505","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781950539505.jpg?v=1779430707","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781950539505","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}