Book description
Hella Nation charts Wright's deeply personal journey, from his
stark but sympathetic portrayals of sex workers in Porn Valley to his
raw portrait of a Hollywood über-agent turned war documentarian and
hero of America's far right. Along the way he meets runaway teens in
Hollywood earning corporate dollars as skateboard pitchmen, radical
anarchists plotting the overthrow of capitalism from tree-sits in the
Oregon rainforest and young American troops on the hunt for terrorists
in the combat zones of the Middle East. His subjects are people for
whom The American Dream is either just out of grasp, or something they
have chosen to reject altogether.
Sometimes frightening, usually profane, and often darkly comic,
Hella Nation is Wright's meticulously observed tour of the
jagged edges of all those other Americas hiding in plain sight.
Evan Wright is the New York Times bestselling author of
Generation
Kill
and the co-writer of the award-winning television series it became in
collaboration with the creators of
The Wire
. A contributing editor to Vanity Fair, he has also written for Rolling
Stone, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. He is the recipient
of two National Magazine Awards, and for Generation Kill he received a
Los Angeles Times Book Award and a PEN Literary Award, inter alia. He
lives in southern California.
