Hunting Mister Heartbreak (Vintage Departures) [Idioma Inglés]: A Discovery of America - Softcover

Raban, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 037570101X ISBN 13: 9780375701016

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1998

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Book by Raban Jonathan

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The author of Bad Land describes his experiences traveling around the United States, in the footsteps of eighteenth-century author Hector St. John de Cre+a6vecoeur, in search of the essence of the American identity. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

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"In an era of jet tourism, [Jonathan Raban] remains a
traveler-adventurer in the tradition of  .  .  .  Robert Louis Stevenson."
--The New York Times Book Review

In 1782 an immigrant with the high-toned name J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur--"Heartbreak" in English--wrote a pioneering account of one European's transformation into an American. Some two hundred years later Jonathan Raban, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, arrived in Crèvecoeur's wake to see how America has paid off for succeeding generations of newcomers. The result is an exhilarating, often deliciously funny book that is at once a travelogue, a social history, and a love letter to the United States.
        In the course of Hunting Mr. Heartbreak, Raban passes for homeless in New York and tries to pass for a good ol' boy in Alabama (which entails &

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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 037570101X
• ISBN 13: 9780375701016
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384