Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
Autor Paul Therouxen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mar 2016
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
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.
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
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