Description for Freeways
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 196 pages, 15 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 172 x 16. Weight in Grams: 218.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Parthian Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781902638225
SKU
V9781902638225
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-2
About Lewis Davies
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'.
Reviews for Freeways
'Evokes a vivid picture of the promised road to prosperity, bringing to life the sweat, toil and seediness along the way.' South Wales Echo.