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Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads

Autor Paul Theroux
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Winner of the Stanford Dolman Lifetime Contribution to Travel Writing Award 2020

Beloved travel writer Paul Theroux turns his attention to America, exploring the landscapes and communities of his homeland as an outsider for the first time

For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth - to China, India, Africa, the Pacific Islands, South America, Russia, and elsewhere - and brought them to life in his cool, exacting prose. InDeep Southhe turns his gaze to a region much closer to his home.

Travelling through North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas, Paul Theroux writes of the stunning landscapes he discovers - the deserts, the mountains, the Mississippi - and above all, the lives of the people he meets.

The South is a place of contradictions. There is the warm, open spirit of the soul food cafes, found in every town, no matter how small. There is the ruined grandeur of numberless ghostly towns, long abandoned by the industries that built them. There are the state gun shows and the close-knit,subtly forlorn tribe of people who attend and run them. Deep in the heart of his native country, Theroux discovers a land more profoundly foreign than anything he has previously experienced.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241969359
ISBN-10: 0241969352
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Paul Therouxhas written many works of fiction and travel writing, including the modern classicsThe Great Railway Bazaar,The Old Patagonian Express, My Secret HistoryandTheMosquito Coast. He won the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing 2020.
Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.

Recenzii

Publisher's description. For the first time, renowned travel writer Paul Theroux turns his penetrating gaze homeward, exploring the extraordinary places and peoples of the American Deep South. From soul food and wide open roads to endemic poverty and simmering racial tension, he journeys to the heart of a vivid and mesmerising world.
His ability to sum up a people or a city in a few lines is undiminished
Theroux's work remains the standard by which other travel writing must be judged
The world's most perceptive travel writer
[Theroux] has the power to transport us and get under the skin of a place... the stories inDeep Southmake for a compelling listen
Thisengrossingbook reminds us that despite the poverty, maybe because of it,everyone has a story to telland it's the writer's job to bear such testimony