Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions

Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions
ISBN-10
0312283520
ISBN-13
9780312283520
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
280
Language
English
Published
2002-10-04
Publisher
Macmillan
Author
Jenny Diski

Description

The author describes her journey into the heart of the United States during two cross-country trips aboard Amtrak, as she looks at herself and her own life throught the mirror of America and Americans.

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