Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads

Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads

by Paul Theroux (Author)

Synopsis

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 he writes of the stunning landscapes he discovers - the deserts, the mountains, the Mississippi - and above all, the lives of the people he meets.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 464
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 03 Sep 2015

ISBN 10: 0241146739
ISBN 13: 9780241146736

Media Reviews
Publisher's description. For the first time, renowned travel writer Paul Theroux turns his penetrating gaze homeward, exploring the extraordinary places and peoples of the American Deep South. From soul food and wide open roads to endemic poverty and simmering racial tension, he journeys to the heart of a vivid and mesmerising world. * Penguin *
His ability to sum up a people or a city in a few lines is undiminished * Daily Telegraph *
Theroux's work remains the standard by which other travel writing must be judged * Observer *
The world's most perceptive travel writer * Daily Mail *
Author Bio
Paul Theroux has written many works of fiction and travel writing, including the modern classics The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, My Secret History and The Mosquito Coast. Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.