Hunting Mr Heartbreak

Raban, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 033032053X / ISBN 13: 9780330320535

Edité par Picador, 1991

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Paperback in Good condition. Not Inscribed. Covers slightly rubbed with some page curling and light uniform page browning. Without question an immensely clever and innovative exploration of that quirkily optimistic state of mind called New Worldliness. The best book of travel ever written by an Englishman about the United States.

N° de réf. du vendeur 30386

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Hunting Mr Heartbreak
• Éditeur: Picador
• Date de parution: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 033032053X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780330320535
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Illustrateur: George Sharp (Cover Illustration)
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Travel

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Synopsis

For hundred of years this sentence has tantalized and inspired Europeans. Jonathan Raban followed in the steps of Hector St John de Crevecoeur -- Mr Heartbreak -- and several million other emigrants to discover America and the immigrant experience afresh. From Liverpool docks he sailed to New York and travelled on to Alabama, Seattle and the Florida Keys. Wherever he went there was a new identity to discover, a new life to live ...'A mordantly funny book that presents itself as a work of reportage but proves to be a work of literature in disguise. It is literary not only in the tightrope acrobatics of its style; its exhilarating verbal inventiveness manages to transform the familiar images and vocabulary of American life into startling novelties' Edward Mendselson, Daily Telegraph 'The best book ever written by an Englishman about the United States' Jan Morris, Independent Books of the Year 'He is most certainly the finest writer afloat since Conrad, and few landlubbers have equalled either his acuteness or his sense of style' Geoffrey Moorhouse, Guardian

À propos de l?auteur

Jonathan Raban was the author of over a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction, including Passage to Juneau, Bad Land, Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Coasting, Old Glory, Arabia, Soft City, Waxwings and Surveillance. Over the span of six decades, he won 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 appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Harpers, The New York Review of Books, Outside, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, The London Review of Books, and other magazines.


In 1990 Raban, a British citizen, moved from London to Seattle, where he lived with his daughter until his death in 2023.