Hella Nation

In Search of the Lost Tribes of America

Evan Wright

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Corgi Books
24 October 2016

Places & peoples: pictorial works

A fascinating, funny and disturbing tour of the lost tribes of America from the award-winning journalist and bestselling author of Generation Kill

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

ber-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 rainforest 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.

By: Evan Wright
Imprint: Corgi Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 326g
ISBN: 9780552173582
ISBN 10: 0552173584
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 24 October 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

EVAN WRIGHT is the author of Generation Kill, one of the most celebrated books on the Iraq War and recently adapted by David Simon into a 7-hour HBO miniseries. He is a recipient of the National Magazine Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Award, a PEN/Faulkner Award and a Lukas Book Prize. He is also a contributing editor to Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair.

Reviews for Hella Nation: In Search of the Lost Tribes of America

A comically macabre portrait of American life...Wright may have even created his own genre of reporting. * USA Today * Priceless... staggering... takes your breath away * Metro * Readers of Generation Kill will definitely want to pick up this hugely entertaining book. 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 * Vivid confirmation of the arrival of a major chronicler of those who live on or beyond the margins of the American mainstream * Kirkus Reviews *