Dirty Kids: Chasing Freedom with America's Nomads
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (524 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1771643048 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
From this angle, Burning Man looks bourgeois." —Ted Conover, author of Newjack and The Routes of ManAt age twenty-two, writer Chris Urquhart left a life of middle-class comfort to document the lives of these young nomads for a magazine feature. In honest prose interspersed with photographs portraying the grimy beauty of nomadic life, Dirty Kids tells the story of how Urquhart lived alongside runaways, crust punks, and dropouts, hippies, Deadheads, and Rainbows in an attempt to belong in their world.But the road took its toll, and along the way, Urquhart found suffering alongside the freedom—mental health issu
She has chronicled the daily lives of teens at a Texas high school, told the story of a Venezuelan cult, and followed a group of nomadic youth across the U.S.Micah White is the lifelong activist who co-created Occupy Wall Street, a global social movement, while an editor of Adbusters magazine. Chris lives in Toronto, Ontario.Kitra Cahanaworks as a documentary photographer and videographer. Named by Esquire as one of the most in
From this angle, Burning Man looks bourgeois"—Ted Conover, author of Newjack and The Routes of Man"Dirty Kids brings readers face-to-face with the bliss of freedom, the terror of loneliness, and the hard but true realities of life on the road?and on the rails?in modern day Babylon.?—Peter Conners, author of Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead"In Dirty Kids, Urquhart shows us a seldom-glimpsed slice of America with poetic flair and journalistic objectivity." —Ken Ilgunas, author of Trespassing Across America. "An illuminating and memorable twenty-first-century journey