No Particular Place to Go

Hugo Williams (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

190 Seiten

2012 | Main
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
9780571295197 (ISBN)

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'A hilarious book of bad times, bedtimes and benders. It is a kind of cool parody of On the Road.' New Statesman

No Particular Place to Go (first published in 1981) relates Hugo Williams's journey across the USA on a three-month poetry-reading tour wherein he also hoped to discover some of the America he had imagined for so long on the strength of its all-consuming popular culture.

'No Particular Place to Go isn't a book that you'd take on a visitor's itinerary of the States . . . But the journey it describes is a potent one . . . It offered a poet's eye on modern culture, a cool, sideways perspective on its consumers and an enviable traveller's voice - not just unafraid of meeting the locals but positively keen to jump in and grab whatever was on offer.' John Walsh, Independent

Hugo Williams was born in 1942 and grew up in Sussex. He worked on the London Magazine from 1961 to 1970, since when he has earned his living as a journalist and travel writer. Billy's Rain won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1999. His Collected Poems was published by Faber in 2002 and his last collection, I Knew the Bride, was published in 2014 and shortlisted for the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes. In 2004 he received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.5.2012
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	126 x 198 mm
Gewicht	208 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Partnerschaft / Sexualität
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
ISBN-13	9780571295197 / 9780571295197
Zustand	Neuware