Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads

Name: Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
Brand: Penguin
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By Paul Theroux

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For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth - to China, India, Africa, the Pacific Islands, South America, Russia, and elsewhere - and brought them to life in his cool, exacting prose. In Deep South he turns his gaze to a region much closer to his home. Travelling through North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas, Paul Theroux writes of the stunning landscapes he discovers - the deserts, the mountains, the Mississippi - and above all, the lives of the people he meets. The South is a place of contradictions. There is the warm, open spirit of the soul food cafes, found in every town, no matter how small. There is the ruined grandeur of numberless ghostly towns, long abandoned by the industries that built them. There are the state gun shows and the close-knit,subtly forlorn tribe of people who attend and run them. Deep in the heart of his native country, Theroux discovers a land more profoundly foreign than anything he has previously experienced. This paperback book has 452 pages and measures: 19.8 x 12.8 x 2.8cm

Product details

Binding:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

480

Release Date:

2017-04-01

Publication Date:

2017-04-01

Publisher:

Penguin

Languages:

Published: English, Original: English

ISBN10:

0241982227

ISBN13:

9780241982228

Weight:

340 g

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