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A portrait of former Capitol Hill speechwriter Guy Waterman follows his decision to leave civilization and live off the land in a Vermont cabin, describing his passionate pursuit of mountain climbing and his controversial suicide. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
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A former staff writer for the Washington Post, Chip Brown has written for the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, Outside, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Conde Nast Traveler. He has won numerous awards for his journalism, including a National Magazine Award for feature writing. He is the author of Afterwards, You're a Genius: Faith, Medicine, and the Metaphysics of Healing.
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Former Washington Post staffer Brown (Afterwards, You're a Genius) offers a vibrant portrait of multitalented, enigmatic outdoorsman Guy Waterman, whose son Jon's climbing-related death was chronicled in Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild. Beneath a title borrowed from Emily Dickinson, a ghostly mountaineer cover photo evokes events leading to the 67-year-old's carefully planned, snowy, subzero suicide in February 2000. Opening with the retrieval of Waterman's body from New Hampshire's Franconia Ridge, Brown traces Waterman's life and career. Inspired by Helen and Scott Nearing's back-to-the-land bible, Living the Good Life, Guy and Laura Waterman left New York City in 1973 to live off the land in Vermont. The conservationist couple collaborated on adventure-type magazine pieces and books and found an intimacy with the earth, but dark clouds of grief over losing his two sons (another son, Bill, died in a mountaineering accident, too) hovered. By 1992, Waterman saw suicide as a sensible option and wrote, I'm prepared to accept sixty years as a sufficient lifetime; and my intermittent glories as a piano player, politician, father, homesteader, and mountain environmental advocate and activist as concluded. His final message read, Do not take special efforts to save life. Death is intended. Mapping an existential journey through life and death, Brown has blazed a poetic path into Waterman's soul. Photos.
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- PublisherRiverhead Trade
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1573223794
- ISBN 13 9781573223799
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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