Deep South
Four Seasons on Back Roads
«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.»
Penguin
On road trips spanning four seasons, wending along rural highways, Paul Theroux travels to America's Deep South to uncover the truth behind the myths, the fictions and the lies. He visits gun shows and small-town churches, labourers in Arkansas, and parts of Mississippi where they still call the farm up the road 'the plantation'. Les mer
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On road trips spanning four seasons, wending along rural highways, Paul Theroux travels to America's Deep South to uncover the truth behind the myths, the fictions and the lies. He visits gun shows and small-town churches, labourers in Arkansas, and parts of Mississippi where they still call the farm up the road 'the plantation'.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 464
- ISBN
- 9780241969359
- Utgivelsesår
- 2016
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
- Priser
- Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2016
Anmeldelser
«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.»
Penguin
«His ability to sum up a people or a city in a few lines is undiminished»
Daily Telegraph
«Theroux's work remains the standard by which other travel writing must be judged»
Observer
«The world's most perceptive travel writer»
Daily Mail
«[Theroux] has the power to transport us and get under the skin of a place... the stories in Deep South make for a compelling listen»
Duncan Minshull, BBC Radio 4
«This engrossing book reminds us that despite the poverty, maybe because of it, everyone has a story to tell and it's the writer's job to bear such testimony»
Financial Times