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050 00 $aPS3572.O395$bZ46 2008
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100 1 $aVollmann, William T.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85319852
245 10 $aRiding toward everywhere /$cWilliam T. Vollmann.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bEcco,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $a206 pages, 65 pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [191]-197).
520 1 $a"Vollmann is a relentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence. For Riding Toward Everywhere, Vollmann himself takes to the rails. His main accomplice is Steve, a captivating fellow trainhopper who expertly accompanies him through the secretive waters of this particular way of life. Vollmann describes the thrill and terror of lying in a trainyard in the dark, avoiding the flickering flashlights of the railroad bulls; the shockingly, gorgeously wild scenery of the American West as seen from a grainer platform; the complicated considerations involved in trying to hop on and off a moving train. It's a dangerous, thrilling, evocative examination of this underground lifestyle, and it is, without a doubt, one of Vollmann's most hauntingly beautiful narratives." "Questioning anything and everything, subjecting both our national romance and our skepticism about hobo life to his finely tuned, analytical eye and the reality of what he actually sees, Vollmann carries on in the tradition of Huckleberry Finn, providing a moving portrait of this strikingly modern vision of the American dream."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aVollmann, William T.$xTravel.
650 0 $aRailroad travel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85110900
852 00 $bglx$hPS3572.O395$iZ46 2008