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Farewell transmission : (notes from hidden spaces) / Will McGrath.

by McGrath, Will, 1980- author.

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Ann Arbor, MI : Dzanc Books, 2022.

McGrath, Will, 1980- -- Travel.

9781950539505 (paperback) :

1950539504 (paperback)

209 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Overture -- Bird & spade -- Invisibilities -- The Kings of Simcoe County ; Huron River Drive ; A noise in Hentiesbaai ; Hallucination (donut shop) ; Keyhole to Sana'a ; Death of the virgin ; Hallucination (active shooter) -- Excavations -- Peanut's odyssey ; Ballad of the curtain jerker ; The open pits ; Steel tracks ; Hallucination (hotel room) ; Garden of the goatherd ; Farewell transmission -- Coda -- Hallucination (San Sebastian).

"In Farewell Transmission, 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. This 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 The Empathy Exams and John Jeremiah Sullivan's Pulphead, these essays pulse with electric prose and vivid characters, seeking out the invisible forces that bind us across our wondrous and troubling planet."--Provided by publisher.

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