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Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads - Hardcover

Theroux, Paul

 
9780544323520: Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0544323521 ISBN 13: 9780544323520
Verlag: Eamon Dolan / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015

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One of the most acclaimed travel writers of our time turns his unflinching eye on an American South too often overlooked
Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the first time, in his tenth travel book, Theroux explores a piece of America — the Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, and yet also some of the nation’s worst schools, housing, and unemployment rates. It’s these parts of the South, so often ignored, that have caught Theroux’s keen traveler’s eye. 
 
On road trips spanning four seasons, wending along rural highways, Theroux visits gun shows and small-town churches, laborers in Arkansas, and parts of Mississippi where they still call the farm up the road “the plantation.” He talks to mayors and social workers, writers and reverends, the working poor and farming families — the unsung heroes of the south, the people who, despite it all, never left, and also those who returned home to rebuild a place they could never live without. 
 
From the writer whose “great mission has always been to transport us beyond that reading chair, to challenge himself — and thus, to challenge us” (Boston Globe), Deep South is an ode to a region, vivid and haunting, full of life and loss alike.

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Early Acclaim for DEEP SOUTH

This luminous sojourn is Theroux s best outing in years. Publishers Weekly, starred review

As thoughtful as it is evocative, the book offers insight into a significant region and its people and customs. An epically compelling travel memoir. Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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Verlag
Eamon Dolan / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0544323521
ISBN 13 
9780544323520
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
464
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