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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Chicago Pr
Publication date
October 25, 2013
Pages
237
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780226073224
ISBN-10
022607322X
Dimensions
0.50 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight
0.90 lbs.
Original list price
$20.00
Other format details
university press
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Summaries and Reviews
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On a warm summerâs night in Athens, Georgia, Patrik Keim stuck a pistol into his mouth and pulled the trigger. Keim was an artist, and the room in which he died was an assemblage of the tools of his particular trade: the floor and table were covered with images, while a pair of large scissors, glue, electrical tape, and some dentures shared space with a pile of old medical journals, butcher knives, and various other small objects. Keim had cleared a space on the floor, and the wall directly behind him was bare. His body completed the tableau. Art and artists often end in tragedy and obscurity, but Keimâs story doesnât end with his death.
A few years later, 180 miles away from Keimâs grave, a bulldozer operator uncovered a pine coffin in an old beaver swamp down the road from Allen C. Sheltonâs farm. He quickly reburied it, but Shelton, a friend of Keimâs who had a suitcase of his unfinished projects, became convinced that his friend wasnât dead and fixed in the ground, but moving between this world and the next in a traveling coffin in search of his incomplete work.
In Where the North Sea Touches Alabama, Shelton ushers us into realms of fantasy, revelation, and reflection, paced with a slow unfurling of magical correspondences. Though he is trained as a sociologist, this is a genre-crossing work of literature, a two-sided ethnography: one from the world of the living and the other from the world of the dead.
What follows isnât a ghost story but an exciting and extraordinary kind of narrative. The psycho-sociological landscape that Shelton constructs for his reader is as evocative of Kafka, Bataille, and Benjamin as it is of Weber, Foucault, and Marx. Where the North Sea Touches Alabama is a work of sociological fictocriticism that explores not only the authorâs relationship to the artist but his physical, historical, and social relationship to northeastern Alabama, in rare style.
A few years later, 180 miles away from Keimâs grave, a bulldozer operator uncovered a pine coffin in an old beaver swamp down the road from Allen C. Sheltonâs farm. He quickly reburied it, but Shelton, a friend of Keimâs who had a suitcase of his unfinished projects, became convinced that his friend wasnât dead and fixed in the ground, but moving between this world and the next in a traveling coffin in search of his incomplete work.
In Where the North Sea Touches Alabama, Shelton ushers us into realms of fantasy, revelation, and reflection, paced with a slow unfurling of magical correspondences. Though he is trained as a sociologist, this is a genre-crossing work of literature, a two-sided ethnography: one from the world of the living and the other from the world of the dead.
What follows isnât a ghost story but an exciting and extraordinary kind of narrative. The psycho-sociological landscape that Shelton constructs for his reader is as evocative of Kafka, Bataille, and Benjamin as it is of Weber, Foucault, and Marx. Where the North Sea Touches Alabama is a work of sociological fictocriticism that explores not only the authorâs relationship to the artist but his physical, historical, and social relationship to northeastern Alabama, in rare style.
Editions
Hardcover
from Univ of Chicago Pr (October 25, 2013)
9780226063645 | details & prices | 237 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $60.00
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
from Univ of Chicago Pr (October 25, 2013)
9780226073224 | details & prices | 237 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $20.00
About: On a warm summerâs night in Athens, Georgia, Patrik Keim stuck a pistol into his mouth and pulled the trigger.
About: On a warm summerâs night in Athens, Georgia, Patrik Keim stuck a pistol into his mouth and pulled the trigger.
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