Driving Home

An American Journey

Jonathan Raban (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

600 Seiten

2013
Sasquatch Books (Verlag)
978-1-57061-882-6 (ISBN)

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For more than thirty years, Jonathan Raban has written with infectious fascination about people and places in transition or on the margins, about journeys undertaken and destinations never quite reached, and, as an expat, about what it means to feel rooted in America. Spanning two decades, Driving Home charts a course through the Pacific Northwest, American history, and current events as witnessed by "a super-sensitive, all-seeing eye. Proving that an outsider is the keenest observer of the scene that natives take for granted, this collection of Jonathan Raban’s essays affirms his place as the most literate, perceptive, and humorous commentator on the places, characters, and obsessions that constitute the American scene. Raban spots things we might otherwise miss; he calls up the apt metaphors that transform things into phenomena. "He is one of our most gifted observers." (Newsday).

Jonathan Raban is the author, most recently, of the novels Surveillance and Waxwings; his nonfiction includes Passage to Juneau and Bad Land. His honors include the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. He lives in Seattle.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.7.2013
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 217 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
	Reiseführer ► Europa ► Großbritannien
	Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► USA
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-57061-882-8 / 1570618828
ISBN-13	978-1-57061-882-6 / 9781570618826
Zustand	Neuware