Lawrence Wright: Headshots, Gebunden

Blurb

Thirty never-before-collected essays---many of them profiles---by the Pulitzer Prize--winning and bestselling author of The Looming Tower ,Going Clear, andThe Plague Year. These brilliant pieces reveal the broad spectrum of Wright's cultural and political observations over the past thirty-five years.

Spanning more than thirty-five years of Lawrence Wright's reporting for The New Yorker , Texas Monthly ,Rolling Stone , and other magazines, these pieces remind us what a brilliant observer Wright has been of institutions, of political maneuverings, and of people---dangerous, eccentric, or beloved.

Some of the essays included:

ORPHANS OF JONESTOWN (1993): A profile of Jim Jones's three sons who, following the Jonestown massacre, were left alone in a society uncomprehending of their experience.

A RAPIST'S HOMECOMING (1995): The ethical dilemma of a prison therapist, concerned that her patient---about to be released---could attack again.

A LIVING DOLL (1988): A very personal column on how the author relates to his 5-year-old daughter through her toys.

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RICHARD BRAUTIGAN (1985): An incisive look at the 1960s and 1970s literary icon.

SPACE CADET (1981): How a sanitary engineer combined her expertise and career with her love of space exploration and NASA.

THE ELEPHANT IN THE COURTOOM (2022): Should animals have legal rights?

And many others: A profile of the great spitball pitcher, Gaylord Perry; a look at how a Pentecostal Texas cattle farmer and an orthodox rabbi from Jerusalem came together over the End of Days; a 2006 essay detailing an attack in Gaza that mirrors the tragedies occurring today; a profile of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi; one of Jimmy Carter; and a group of essays that deal with Wright's life as a father.

This is an important collection that will demand attention, and a stirring overview of an extraordinary career.