Neck Deep and Other Predicaments: Essays

Neck Deep and Other Predicaments: Essays

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<p><b>Neck Deep and Other Predicaments is an innovative and engaging nonfiction debut by "an original new voice" (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>) and the winner of the 2006 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize</b></p><p>In this sparkling nonfiction debut, Ander Monson uses unexpectedly nonliterary forms―the index, the Harvard Outline, the mathematical proof―to delve into an equally surprising mix of obsessions: disc golf, the history of mining in northern Michigan, car washes, topology, and more. He reflects on his outsider experience at an exclusive Detroit-area boarding school in the form of a criminal history and invents a new form as he meditates on snow.</p>