You Can't Get There from Here: A Year on the Fringes of a Shrinking World - Couverture souple

Forman, Gayle

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1594865515 ISBN 13 : 9781594865510

Editeur : Rodale Pr, 2006

Synopsis

Book by Forman Gayle

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In these eight interconnected travel stories, journalist Gayle Forman traces the trajectory from her relatively comfortable life in New York's Hell's Kitchen to her sometimes extreme—and extremely personal—experiences in some of the most exotic spots on earth

In this extraordinary memoir—now issued in paperback—Gayle Forman takes us with her to the mountain hideaways of Kazakhstan's Tolkien fanatics and inside the townships of South Africa's lost tribe of Israel. She introduces us to a wild assortment of characters: lovelorn Tongan transvestites, charismatic Tanzanian rap stars, precocious Cambodian street kids, out-of-work Dutch prostitutes. In the artful interplay of these eight lively, thoughtful stories, she reveals how all of these diverse lives—as well as our own—are being inextricably altered by the ever-shrinking world that we share. Because, she writes, "To forget the humanity in others is to risk forgetting one's own."

Revue de presse

“This is travel through a secret side door; lucky us, we get to go along.” —Newsweek

“Compulsively readable . . . jam-packed with trenchant observations, drama, pathos, and humor. . . . Wherever Gayle Forman is going next, I want to read about it.” —Kate Christensen, author of In the Drink and The Epicure's Lament

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rodale Pr
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1594865515
• ISBN 13: 9781594865510
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible