{"product_id":"house-of-coates-9781566893701","title":"House of Coates","description":"\"An exquisitely haunting, melancholic treasure of a book about people who drop out and populate tiny towns and rural communities, and the longing and loneliness of the human condition.\"\u003cb\u003e--Judy Natal, \u003ci\u003ePhoto-Eye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of the great American moves is vagrancy, the freedom to drift, the right to look at things from outside the mainstream. The prose in House of Coates hums with this irreducible freedom. The photographs are both perfectly artless and undeniably visionary. Any question of fiction, non-fiction, subterfuge, or narrative trickery is superfluous in a book like this one, so appealingly strange, so delicately balanced, and so incontestably bound to its time and place.\"\u003cb\u003e--Teju Cole, author of \u003ci\u003eOpen City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A very handsome paperback edition...a new afterword wraps the whole mystery of Lester beautifully.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eMinnPost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"As Brad Zellar so vividly illustrates in his new limited-edition collaboration with photographer Alec Soth, 'House Of Coates, ' broken men have always been with us, haunting us, providing a mirror. Society may label them bums, homeless, or pariahs, but Zellar's empathetic writing allows the reader to get inside one broken man, and therefore all.\"\u003cb\u003e--Jim Walsh, \u003ci\u003eMinnPost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWashed up in the shadow of a refinery, Lester B. Morrison, legendary recluse, documents his life in a series of photographs taken with a disposable camera. In a landscape of off ramps, warehouses, and SRO hotels occupied by terminally lonely men, love and faith break in, quietly offering human connection and the possibility of redemption. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrad Zellar\u003c\/b\u003e has worked as a writer and editor for daily and weekly newspapers, as well as for both regional and national magazines. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSuburban World: The Norling Photos\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe 1968 Project\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConductors of the Moving World\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHouse of Coates\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlec Soth\u003c\/b\u003e is a photographer whose first monograph, \u003ci\u003eSleeping by the Mississippi\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Steidl in 2004. Since then Soth has published over a dozen books including \u003ci\u003eNiagara\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003eDog Days, Bogot \u003c\/i\u003e (2007), \u003ci\u003eThe Last Days of W\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), and \u003ci\u003eBroken Manual\u003c\/i\u003e (2010). Soth's work has been exhibited at Jeu de Paume in Paris and Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coffee House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781566893701\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/04\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Brad Zellar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38212510613685,"sku":"9781566893701","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_3bb44312-8d05-4a15-b179-668c6fc07c17.jpg?v=1610435755","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/house-of-coates-9781566893701","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}