Freeways - A Journey West on Route 66

Freeways - A Journey West on Route 66

by Lewis Davies (Author), Lewis Davies (Author)

Synopsis

A road book about travel and the lure of migration. A drive along Route 66 from Oklahoma through New Mexico and Arizona to the promised land of California. A country obsessed with change and itself, fragmenting into pieces as the drift of manifest prosperity stalls on the coast.

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More Information

Format: Illustrated
Pages: 196
Edition: New
Publisher: Parthian Books
Published: 02 Oct 2003

ISBN 10: 1902638220
ISBN 13: 9781902638225

Media Reviews
'Evokes a vivid picture of the promised road to prosperity, bringing to life the sweat, toil and seediness along the way.' South Wales Echo.
Author Bio
Lewis Davies' novels include 'Work, Sex and Rugby', 'Tree of Crows' and 'My Piece of Happiness' which he also adapted for the theatre. He won the Rhys Davis prize for 'Mr Roopratna's Chocolate'. He has edited two short fiction anthologies, 'Mama's Baby (Papa's Maybe)' and 'The Urban Welsh'.