Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon

From Barnes & Noble:

Overview

William Least Heat-Moon's journey into America began with little more than the need to put home behind him. At a turning point in his life, he packed up a van he called Ghost Dancing and escaped out of himself and into the country. The people and the places he discovered on his roundabout 13,000-mile trip down the back roads ("blue highways") and through small, forgotten towns are unexpected, sometimes mysterious, and full of the spark and wonder of ordinary life. Robert Penn Warren said, "He has a genius for finding people who have not even found themselves." The power of Heat-Moon's writing and his delight in the overlooked and the unexamined capture a sense of our national destiny, the true American experience. 

That unexcelled exploration of our nation based on a 13,000-mile journey in a Ford van along back roads (printed in blue on old maps) is available for the first time in a trade paperback edition that replicates the style and design of the original hardcover. Photographs and maps. 

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SPOILERS AHEAD


So like, I've no idea who is reading this but they will surely have something to say about it when they do! ;)

 

1 comment:

  1. I had a witty, wonderful comment all typed up and then Google ate it. ANyway, I'm reading this now, finally starting to get into it :) only 25 or so pages in, and enjoying it very much. His SoC is very different!

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