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1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 34 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Sean Pratt. |
| Summary |
Locked in battle with both his adult appetites and his most private childhood demons, Kent Russell hungers for immersive experience and revelation, and his essays take us to society's ragged edges, the junctures between savagery and civilization. He pitches a tent at an annual four-day music festival in Illinois, among the misunderstood, thick-as-thieves fans who self-identify as Juggalos. He treks to the end of the continent to visit a legendary hockey enforcer, the granddaddy of all tough guys, to see how he's preparing for his last foe: obsolescence. He spends a long weekend getting drunk with a self-immunizer who is willing to prove that he has conditioned his body to withstand the bites of the most venomous snakes. And in the piercing interstitial meditations between these essays, Russell introduces us to his own raging and inimitable forebears. Blistering and deeply personal, I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son records Russell's quest to understand, through his journalistic subjects, his own appetites and urges, his persistent alienation, and, above all, his knotty, volatile, vital relationship with his father. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Russell, Kent.
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Fathers and sons.
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Masculinity.
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Men -- Psychology.
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| Added Author |
Pratt, Sean, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781494590581 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1494590581 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11334704 |
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