Breakfast at the Exit Cafe (eBook)

Travels Through America

Wayne Grady, Merilyn Simonds (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2010
256 Seiten
Greystone Books (Verlag)
978-1-55365-656-2 (ISBN)

Infos

What begins as a road trip through America soon becomes a journey of discovery into themselves and into the heart of the next-door neighbour they thought they knew. For Wayne Grady, the thrill of landscape and history is tempered by memories of racism and his own family roots. Merilyn Simonds, her ear tuned for the offbeat, finds curious echoes of the ex-pat promised land she grew up with. Together they travel against the tide of American history, following in the literary tire tracks of John Steinbeck, William Least Heat Moon, and Francis Trollope.Grady and Simonds experience the splendors of the Mojave Desert, the Grand Canyon, the Mississippi River, and the bayous of Louisiana and the Outer Banks and contemplate the impact of geography on culture and of culture on landscape. They observe America from the outside, yet feel strangely at home.Part travelogue, part exploration, part mid-winter love story told with wit and acuity by one of Canadas most engaging literary couples, Breakfast at the Exit Cafe is a journey into the reality behind the cultural myth that is America.

Autor

Wayne Grady is one of Canada's finest science writers and a Governor General's Award-winning translator. He has authored eleven books of nonfiction, translated fourteen novels, and edited more than a dozen anthologies of short stories and creative nonfiction.Merilyn Simonds is the author of fourteen books, including the novel The Holding, named a New York Times Editor's Choice, as well as the acclaimed works of literary nonfiction The Lion in the Room Next Door and The Convict Lover, a finalist for the Governor General's Award.

Inhalt

Preface 11 / Megalopolis, usa 32 / Astoria 283 / Highway 101 504 / Eureka! California 685 / Route 66 856 / Grand Canyon, Arizona 1057 / The Marriage Road 1308 / Escalante, Utah 1539 / El Camino Real 17710 / Jefferson, Texas 20711 / Selmalabama 23312 / Athens, Georgia 26013 / The Outer Banks 28214 / The Exit Cafe 307Acknowledgements 317

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.9.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• ISBN-10: 1-55365-656-3 / 1553656563
• ISBN-13: 978-1-55365-656-2 / 9781553656562