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21/100Critics
1/100Scholars
Author:
Sebastian Junger
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Date:
May 18, 2021
A rumination on the concept of freedom from the journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Tribe.
What The Reviewers Say
Junger makes an effort to frame their project—'a 300-mile conversation about war' and why it’s so hard to come home—which is more or less what happens in the film. That’s not what happens in the book. Here, we pass through countryside, nearly all of it in south-central Pennsylvania, and don’t hear a word from anyone till the second half. Freedom has a different purpose, a frame far less explicit.
... an odd, rambling book that doesn't really arrive at a conclusion, and at times seems unsure what questions it's asking in the first place.
Journalist and filmmaker Junger returns to the fertile ground of male camaraderie and the pushing of limits.
The narrative spine of the book is Junger’s progress along the route, in whose course he gives us richly detailed descriptions of landscape, camp sites, railroad infrastructure, and rumbling freight trains.
