Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays from the icy Allen Funt

from the icy Allen Funt to the shambolic Chuck Barris

and the quest for home

A gripping graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis's bestselling I Survived the Attacks of September 11

This work is marked by Kierkegaard's Socratic awareness of the reader

fire engines

Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays from the icy Allen FuntGeorge Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected and illuminated the fraught times in which he lived. "As soon as he began to write something," comments George Packer in his foreword, "it was as natural for Orwell to propose, generalize, qualify, argue, judge in short, to think as it was for Yeats to versify or Dickens to invent." Facing Unpleasant Facts charts