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Riding Toward Everywhere

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Availability:In StockContributor:William T. VollmannPublish date:2016-01-29Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ecco PressISBN-13:9780061256769ISBN-10:61256765UPC:9780061256769Book Category:TravelBook Subcategory:Essays & Travelogues, South America, Special InterestBook Topic:AdventureSize:8.01 x 5.28 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SC6P76B8TV

Arelentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence, William T. Vollmann now takes to the rails. In the company of experienced fellow train-hopper Steve, Vollmann trawls the secretive waters of a unique underground lifestyle--subjecting both our national romance with and skepticism about the hobo life to his finely tuned, analytical eye. Carrying on in the footloose tradition of Huckleberry Finn, he offers a moving, strikingly modern vision of the American dream, brilliantly exploring both our deeply ingrained romanticizing of "freedom" and the myriad ways we restrict the very freedoms we profess to admire.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Ecco PressISBN-13:9780061256769ISBN-10:61256765UPC:9780061256769Book Category:TravelBook Subcategory:Essays & Travelogues, South America, Special InterestBook Topic:AdventureSize:8.01 x 5.28 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SC6P76B8TV
Vollmann, William T.: -

William T. Vollmann is the author of seven novels, three collections of stories, and a seven-volume critique of violence, Rising Up and Rising Down. He is also the author of Poor People, a worldwide examination of poverty through the eyes of the impoverished themselves; Riding Toward Everywhere, an examination of the train-hopping hobo lifestyle; and Imperial, a panoramic look at one of the poorest areas in America. He has won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize and a Whiting Writers' Award. His journalism and fiction have been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, Spin and Granta. Vollmann lives in Sacramento, California.

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