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Boomer: Railroad Memoirs

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by Linda G. Niemann
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Availability:In StockContributor:Linda G. Niemann, Leslie Marmon Silko (Introduction by)Series:Railroads Past and PresentPublish date:2011-04-07Pages:280
Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253222831ISBN-10:253222834UPC:9780253222831Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:WomenSize:9.04 x 6.07 x 0.71 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SC1WE2NK96

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...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253222831ISBN-10:253222834UPC:9780253222831Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:WomenSize:9.04 x 6.07 x 0.71 inchesWeight:0.9414Product ID:SC1WE2NK96

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).


Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Linda G. Niemann, Leslie Marmon Silko (Introduction by)

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Linda G. Niemann

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