Glimpse Traveler (eBook)

Marianne Boruch (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
240 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-00555-7 (ISBN)

Infos

A stunning, poetic memoir “that will transport readers to a time when a nation’s youth searched for meaning against the backdrop of the Vietnam War” (Publishers Weekly).   When she joins a pair of hitchhikers on a trip to California, a young Midwestern woman embarks on a journey of memory, beauty, and realization. This true story, set in 1971, recounts a fateful, nine-day trip into the American counterculture that begins on a whim and quickly becomes a mission to unravel a tragic mystery.   The narrator’s path leads her to Berkeley, San Francisco, Mill Valley, Big Sur, and finally to an abandoned resort motel that has become a down-on-its-luck commune in the desert of southern Colorado. The Glimpse Traveler describes with wry humor and deep feeling what it was like to witness a peculiar and impossibly rich time.   “A perceptive, engaging, intimate chronicle of the early 1970s, the road-weary hippie hitchhikers, the anti-war sentiment, the dope-induced haze. Boruch . . . captures this very specific, significant time and place with exquisite clarity and lyric detail and description.” —Dinty Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.8.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Break Away Books
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 130 x 130 mm
• Gewicht: 14 g
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: hippie counterculture • Hippies • Marianne Boruch • Memoir • Midwest • midwestern literature • midwest literature
• ISBN-10: 0-253-00555-8 / 0253005558
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-00555-7 / 9780253005557