Driving Home - Couverture souple

Raban, Jonathan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0330480820 ISBN 13 : 9780330480826

Editeur : Picador, 2012

Synopsis

Driving Home 'Teems with acerbic humour ... 600 relentlessly intelligent pages of erudite, witty and combative prose.' Patrick McGrath, Guardian 'Book of the Week' Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

For over thirty years Jonathan Raban has written about people and places in transition or on the margins, of journeys undertaken and destinations never quite reached; of isolation and alienation, but also of what it means to belong, to feel rooted.

Driving Home, a collection of pieces spanning two decades, charts its course through American history and recent world events. Raban writes with an outsider s eye for the public and the personal, about political, social, and cultural affairs, and about literature, his tone intimate but never nostalgic, and always fresh. Variously frank, witty, and provocative, Driving Home is part essay collection, part diary and wholly engrossing.

A passionate history buff and a skilled raconteur . . . it s a fine ride Sunday Times

A fabulous collection Observer

Biographie de l'auteur :

Jonathan Raban is the author of over a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction, including Passage to Juneau, Bad Land, Hunting Mr Heartbreak, Coasting, Old Glory, Arabia, Soft City, Waxwings and Surveillance. His awards include the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award, the Thomas Cook Award, the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Harpers, The New York Review of Books, Outside, The London Review of Books and many other magazines.

In 1990 Raban, a British citizen, moved from London to Seattle, where he now lives with his daughter.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0330480820
• ISBN 13: 9780330480826
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 625