![]() Bored and listless, fifteen-year-old June and Val take a pink plastic raft out onto the bay.īut on the water, in the humid night, the girls disappear. Summer in Red Hook, Brooklyn, an isolated blue-collar neighborhood where hipster gourmet supermarkets push against tired housing projects. Gura also gives us the key to understanding what sets the early novel apart, arguing that it is distinguished by its roots in “the fundamental religiosity of American life.” Our nation’s pioneering novelists, it turns out, wrote less in the service of art than of morality. Webb, and the irrepressible John Neal-to paint a complete and authoritative portrait of the era. Grounded in Gura’s extensive consideration of the diverse range of important early novels, not just those that remain widely read today, this book recovers many long-neglected but influential writers-such as the escaped slave Harriet Jacobs, the free black Philadelphian Frank J. Gura comes Truth’s Ragged Edge, a comprehensive and original history of the American novel’s first century. ![]() ![]() Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel by Philip Guraįrom the acclaimed cultural historian Philip F. She draws from her own experiences of illness and bodily injury to engage in an exploration that extends far beyond her life, spanning wide-ranging territory-from poverty tourism to phantom diseases, street violence to reality television, illness to incarceration-in its search for a kind of sight shaped by humility and grace. ![]() When you head out to the bookstore this month, keep your eye out for these new paperback titles and you won’t be disappointed.īeginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison’s visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel another’s pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other? By confronting pain-real and imagined, her own and others’-Jamison uncovers a personal and cultural urgency to feel. ![]()
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