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PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

ISBN-100395585686

ISBN-139780395585689

eBay Product ID (ePID)138350

Product Key Features

Edition2

Book TitleBlue Highways : a Journey Into America

Number of Pages421 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1991

TopicSpecial Interest / Adventure, United States / General

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel

AuthorWilliam Least Heat-Moon

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight17.3 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN91-016091

ReviewsReading Blue Highways made me go back and look at Jack Kerouac's On the Road to see if Mr. Least Heat-Moon does as well. He does far better . . . Maybe twice a year I read a book I wish were even longer. This is one of them. I could wish Mr. Least Heat-Moon had driven every blue highway in America., Blue Highways ia a splended book, outstanding Americana, which I rank above the next best thing preceding it in the genre, John Steinbeck's Travel with Charley.

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal917.304/927

SynopsisWilliam Least Heat-Moon's journey into America began with little more than the need to put home behind him. At a turning point in his life, he packed up a van he called Ghost Dancing and escaped out of himself and into the country. The people and the places he discovered on his roundabout 13,000-mile trip down the back roads ("blue highways") and through small, forgotten towns are unexpected, sometimes mysterious, and full of the spark and wonder of ordinary life. Robert Penn Warren said, "He has a genius for finding people who have not even found themselves." The power of Heat-Moon's writing and his delight in the overlooked and the unexamined capture a sense of our national destiny, the true American experience., Published in 1983 to phenomenal reviews, Blue Highways: A Journey into America became a cult classic on par with Jack Kerouac's On the Road and John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley. In this highly acclaimed, bestselling memoir, a 38-year-old laid-off college professor of Sioux and white blood drives around the U.S. on the "blue highways, " the rural back made that are colored blue on old maps. The places he discovers during his 13,000-mile journey are unexpected, sometimes mysterious, and often full of simply the wonder of the ordinary.-- Blue Highways received extraordinary reviews when it was first published: -- The current trade paperback edition (Houghton Mifflin) sells 25,000 copies a year but will be out of print by August 1999.-- Heat Moon's long-awaited next book, River-Horse, will be out in September and will draw much attention to this important author. it will be supported by a 14-city author tour, national advertising, holiday catalogs, and NPR sponsorship.-- This edition of Blue Highways will include a new introduction by the author.

LC Classification NumberE169.02.H385 1991

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