EAN: 9781593768010

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

Longlisted for the NBCC Award for Criticism Combining history reportage and nature writing with intimate moments of reflection Greyhound tells of the journey from miscarriage to parenthood and the purpose creativity gives to our lives when we feel purposeless In 2006 in the wake of several miscarriages Joanna Pocock traveled by Greyhound bus across the United States from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later she undertakes the same journey revisiting the cities edgelands highways and motels in the footsteps of the few women writers—Simone de Beauvoir Ethel Mannin and Irma Kurtz—who also chronicled their road trips across the United States. Combining memoir reportage environmental writing and literary criticism Greyhound is a moving and immersive book that captures an America in the throes of late capitalism with all its beauty horror and complexity.

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