--- product_id: 3602113 title: "Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond" price: "123.41 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/3602113-seek-reports-from-the-edges-of-america-and-beyond store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond **Price:** 123.41 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond - **How much does it cost?** 123.41 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/3602113-seek-reports-from-the-edges-of-america-and-beyond) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description “Johnson writes with a fervor that can only be described as religious. Seek is scary and beautiful and ecstatic and uncontrolled…he elevates the mundane to the sublime; he boils things down to their essence. He’s simply one of the few writers around whose sentences make you shudder.” —Adrienne Miller, Esquire Part political disquisition, part travel journal, part self-exploration, Seek is a collection of essays and articles in which Denis Johnson essentially takes on the world. And not an obliging, easygoing world either; but rather one in which horror and beauty exist in such proximity that they might well be interchangeable. Where violence and poverty and moral transgression go unchecked, even unnoticed. A world of such wild, rocketing energy that, grasping it, anything at all is possible. Whether traveling through war-ravaged Liberia, mingling with the crowds at a Christian Biker rally, exploring his own authority issues through the lens of this nation's militia groups, or attempting to unearth his inner resources while mining for gold in the wilds of Alaska, Johnson writes with a mixture of humility and humorous candor that is everywhere present. With the breathtaking and often haunting lyricism for which his work is renowned, Johnson considers in these pieces our need for transcendence. And, as readers of his previous work know, Johnson's path to consecration frequently requires a limning of the darkest abyss. If the path to knowledge lies in experience, Seek is a fascinating record of Johnson's profoundly moving pilgrimage. Review: Denis Johnson delivers again! - Riveting. Revolting. Raucous Denis Johnson delivers again! Review: Four Stars - Great essays by a great writer. Worth reading for the Africa essays alone ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #178,536 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #80 in Literary & Religious Travel Guides #114 in Journalism Writing Reference (Books) #227 in Creative Writing Composition | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 98 Reviews | ## Images ![Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/710vTg3MiyL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Denis Johnson delivers again! *by P***Y on April 14, 2025* Riveting. Revolting. Raucous Denis Johnson delivers again! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Four Stars *by C***P on July 30, 2015* Great essays by a great writer. Worth reading for the Africa essays alone ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A latter-day Pieter Bruegel the Elder depicts the late twentieth century, only in words *by R***N on January 3, 2017* In the fiction of his that I have read Denis Johnson is such a splendid writer, with such a distinctive voice, that I was curious to read his non-fiction -- more properly, perhaps, his "journalism" -- as contained in SEEK. The pieces are somewhat uneven in quality and effect, but here too Johnson's prose is (often) scintillating -- reason in and of itself to read these pieces though most are now about twenty-five years old. There are thirteen pieces. The three best report on insane violence and mayhem in Africa -- two on the Civil War in Liberia (circa early 1990s) and the third on Somalia around the time of the withdrawal of United Nations forces (1995). Other subjects include a Rainbow Gathering in the Ochoco National Forest (mid-1990s); the Eagle Mountain Motorcycle Rally near Fort Worth, catering to "Bikers for Jesus"; the search in the Blue Ridge Mountains for the fugitive terrorist bomber Eric Robert Rudolph; and covering the First Gulf War from Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. I found all but one of the thirteen pieces interesting to at least some degree. The three about Africa were riveting. But, as mentioned, the real reason to read SEEK is for Johnson's writing. Here is the first paragraph of a report from Kabul, shortly after the Taliban had captured it: "The dogs hear the jets before they arrive overhead, so you get the dogs barking, the dogs yammering, every dog in the city of Kabul protesting the violence that approaches, then the shock waves of bomb blasts rubbing the windows, then the lights of the antiaircraft--some like red droplets whipped from a wand, others floating up like orange bubbles and bursting into smoky flares, and blinding, winking muzzle-bursts in the hills like a single light racing madly back and forth, and Stinger missiles rising on crimson tracers--all, for the first several seconds, in absolute silence; and then the distant knocking noises and little pops like ice cubes in a drink, no bigger than that, until nearer positions start up loudly enough to knock a person off a chair." And here is Johnson, known to his two Somalian comrades or escorts as "White Boy" or "Mike from Idaho", looking at the night sky while laying on a mat with those comrades as the three wait for a convoy to leave Mataban, Somalia for the coast: "'We' are me * * * and two Mohameds--Billeh from Mogadishu and the Lion from Lobopar. We're going to Mogadishu with extremely vague notions as to what happens then . . . 'The Lion'--I suppose Billeh's the Tin Man, and we're looking out for the Scarecrow--and naturally I'm Dorothy, and I guarantee you, Africa is as close as you can come to the Land of Oz, or as close as anybody would want to come. In the dark it seems as distant to the horizon as to the sky overhead. No moon tonight, only every star there ever was * * *." --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/3602113-seek-reports-from-the-edges-of-america-and-beyond](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/3602113-seek-reports-from-the-edges-of-america-and-beyond) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-07-28*