Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads - Couverture souple

Theroux, Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0241969352 ISBN 13 : 9780241969359

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 2016

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Quatrième de couverture :

For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth - to China, India, Africa, the Pacific Islands, South America, Russia, and elsewhere - and brought them to life in his cool, exacting prose. In Deep South he turns his gaze to a region much closer to his home.

Travelling through North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas, Paul Theroux writes of the stunning landscapes he discovers - the deserts, the mountains, the Mississippi - and above all, the lives of the people he meets.

The South is a place of contradictions. There is the warm, open spirit of the soul food cafes, found in every town, no matter how small. There is the ruined grandeur of numberless ghostly towns, long abandoned by the industries that built them. There are the state gun shows and the close-knit,subtly forlorn tribe of people who attend and run them. Deep in the heart of his native country, Theroux discovers a land more profoundly foreign than anything he has previously experienced.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Paul Theroux takes us on a riveting journey into the heart of the South, America's other country. Travelling through North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas, he writes of the stunning landscapes he discovers - the deserts, the mountains, the Mississippi - and above all, the lives of the people he meets. Accompanied by arresting photographs by award-winning photographer Steve McCurry.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0241969352
• ISBN 13: 9780241969359
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 464