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Hella Nation: In Search of the Lost Tribes of America

Hella Nation: In Search of the Lost Tribes of America

by EvanWright (Author)

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    Paperback 2009

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Synopsis

Evan Wright has always had an affinity for outsiders - the people he calls 'the lost tribes of America'. Over the course of his career as an award-winning journalist, he has written about men and women with completely opposing attitudes towards today's dominant culture. But they all agree on one thing: they don't fit in. "Hella Nation" charts Wright's deeply personal journey, from his stark but sympathetic portrayals of sex workers in Porn Valley to his raw portrait of a Hollywood uber-agent turned war documentarian and hero of America's far right. Along the way he meets runaway teens in Hollywood earning corporate dollars as skateboard pitchmen, radical anarchists plotting the overthrow of capitalism from tree-sits in the Oregon rain forest 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 have chosen to reject altogether. Sometimes frightening, usually profane, and often darkly comic, "Hella Nation" is Wright's meticulously observed tour of the jagged edges of all those other Americas hiding in plain sight.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 352
 Publisher: Bantam Press
Published: 31 Jul 2009
ISBN 10: 0593064550
ISBN 13: 9780593064559
Book Overview: Take a tour of the lost tribes of America with the bestselling author of Generation Kill

Media Reviews
a comically macabre portrait of American life ... Wright may have even created his own genre of reporting ... which rather than viewing the world through a cascade of drugs and alcohol, applies the prism of a 12-step program to a society that has thoroughly assimilated [Hunter S.] Thompson's excess. USA Today Readers of Generation Kill, which recounted Wright's experiences as an embedded reporter in Iraq, will definitely want to pick up this hugely entertaining book. So will fans of first-person journalism of the sort practiced by Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe ... funny, mesmerizing, frightening, and mind-boggling Booklist [Evan Wright's] style owes more to Hunter S. Thompson than to any sort of political correctness Newsday
Author Bio
Evan Wright is the New York Times bestselling author of Generation Kill and the co-writer of the award-winning television series it became in collaboration with the creators of The Wire. A contributing editor to Vanity Fair, he has also written for Rolling Stone, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. He is the recipient of two National Magazine Awards, and for Generation Kill he received a Los Angeles Times Book Award and a PEN Literary Award, inter alia. He lives in southern California.