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Conover, Ted

 
9780375727863: Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0375727868 ISBN 13 : 9780375727863
Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2001

Synopsis

In Ted Conover's first book, now back in print, he enters a segment of humanity outside society and reports back on a world few of us would chose to enter but about which we are all curious.

Hoboes fascinated Conover, but he had only encountered them in literature and folksongs. So, he decided to take a year off and ride the rails. Equipped with rummage-store clothing, a bedroll, and a few other belongings, he hops a freight train in St. Louis, becoming a tramp in order to discover their peculiar culture. The men and women he meets along the way are by turns generous and mistrusting, resourceful and desperate, philosophical and profoundly cynical. And the narrative he creates of his travels with them is unforgettable and moving.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ted Conover is the author most recently of the National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing. He lives in New York City.

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Éditeur
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0375727868
ISBN 13 
9780375727863
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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