| Description |
441 pages, [16] pages of color plates : illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
"An Eamon Dolan book." |
| Contents |
Fall : "You gotta be going there to get there" -- Interlude : the taboo word -- Winter : "Ones born today don't know how it was" -- Interlude : the paradoxes of Faulkner -- Spring : redbud in bloom -- Interlude : the fantastications of Southern fiction -- Summer : the odor of sun-heated roads. |
| Summary |
On road trips spanning four seasons, wending along rural highways, Theroux visits a deep south characterized by gun shows and small-town churches, laborers in Arkansas, and parts of Mississippi where they still call the farm up the road 'the plantation.' He talks to mayors and social workers, writers and reverends, the working poor and farming families -- the unsung heroes of the south, the people who, despite it all, never left, and also those who returned home to rebuild a place they could never live without. |
| Subject |
Theroux, Paul -- Travel -- Southern States.
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Scenic byways -- Southern States.
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Seasons -- Southern States.
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Travel -- South -- General.
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Travel -- South -- South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV)
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Travel -- South -- West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX)
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Southern States -- Description and travel.
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Southern States -- Social life and customs.
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Southern States -- Social conditions.
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Southern States -- Biography.
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| Genre |
Biography.
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| ISBN |
9780544323520 |
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0544323521 |
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