Boomer

Railroad Memoirs

Linda G. Niemann (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2011
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-22283-1 (ISBN)

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One woman's unconventional path to self-discovery

This classic account of self discovery and railroad life describes Linda Grant Niemann's travels as an itinerant brakeman on the Southern Pacific. Boomer combines travelogue, Wild West adventure, sexual memoir, and closely observed ethnography. A Berkeley Ph.D., Niemann turned her back on academia and set out to master the craft of railroad brakeman, beginning a journey of sexual and subcultural exploration and traveling down a path toward recovery from alcoholism. In honest, clean prose, Niemann treks off the beaten path and into the forgotten places along the rail lines, finding true American characters with colorful pasts—and her true self as well.

Linda Grant Niemann teaches creative nonfiction at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. She is author of Railroad Noir: The American West at the End of the Twentieth Century (IUP, 2010).

Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Indiana edition by Leslie Marmon Silko
1. Breaking In
2. Under the Freeways
3. Boomer in a Boom Town
4. Brakettes Invade Tucson
5. Pasadena Gothic
6. The Monterey Local
7. This is the Place
8. Cadillac Ranch
9. The Pass to the North
10. Down the Line
11. Versions of Home
12. A Road to Ride
13. Northline
14. Shasta
15. End of Track
Glossary

Reihe/Serie	Railroads Past and Present
Einführung	Leslie Marmon Silko
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Technik
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-253-22283-4 / 0253222834
ISBN-13	978-0-253-22283-1 / 9780253222831
Zustand	Neuware