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House of Coates
Zellar Brad
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Description for House of Coates
Paperback. The life and photographs of Lester B. Morrison, legendary recluse. Can a man living in the shadows find redemption? Num Pages: 140 pages, 68 color photos. BIC Classification: AJB; AJCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 171 x 18. Weight in Grams: 243.
"An exquisitely haunting, melancholic treasure of a book about people who drop out and populate tiny towns and rural communities, and the longing and loneliness of the human condition."--Judy Natal, Photo-Eye "One of the great American moves is vagrancy, the freedom to drift, the right to look at things from outside the mainstream. The prose in House of Coates hums with this irreducible freedom. The photographs are both perfectly artless and undeniably visionary. Any question of fiction, non-fiction, subterfuge, or narrative trickery is superfluous in a book like this one, so appealingly strange, so delicately balanced, and so incontestably ... Read more
"An exquisitely haunting, melancholic treasure of a book about people who drop out and populate tiny towns and rural communities, and the longing and loneliness of the human condition."--Judy Natal, Photo-Eye "One of the great American moves is vagrancy, the freedom to drift, the right to look at things from outside the mainstream. The prose in House of Coates hums with this irreducible freedom. The photographs are both perfectly artless and undeniably visionary. Any question of fiction, non-fiction, subterfuge, or narrative trickery is superfluous in a book like this one, so appealingly strange, so delicately balanced, and so incontestably ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
140
Place of Publication
MN, United States
ISBN
9781566893701
SKU
V9781566893701
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Ref
99-15
About Zellar Brad
Brad Zellar has worked as a writer and editor for daily and weekly newspapers, as well as for both regional and national magazines. He is the author of Suburban World: The Norling Photos, The 1968 Project, Conductors of the Moving World, and House of Coates. He has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, The American Association of Alternative ... Read more
Reviews for House of Coates
"Transfixing . . a haunting change of pace."
New York Times "[An] interesting, well-executed book. Ultimately, it's less a narrative about Lester than it is a prose poem about loners and losers, the many Lesters who "never entirely disappear as adults, even if you still persist in not seeing them."
Publishers Weekly "[A] poetic attempt not to fully form a life but ... Read more
New York Times "[An] interesting, well-executed book. Ultimately, it's less a narrative about Lester than it is a prose poem about loners and losers, the many Lesters who "never entirely disappear as adults, even if you still persist in not seeing them."
Publishers Weekly "[A] poetic attempt not to fully form a life but ... Read more