Details
Boomer
Railroad MemoirsRailroads Past and Present
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9,49 € |
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| Verlag: | Indiana University Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 07.04.2011 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780253001351 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 280 |
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Beschreibungen
<p>This classic account of self discovery and railroad life describes Linda Grant Niemann's travels as an itinerant brakeman on the Southern Pacific. Boomer combines travelogue, Wild West adventure, sexual memoir, and closely observed ethnography. A Berkeley Ph.D., Niemann turned her back on academia and set out to master the craft of railroad brakeman, beginning a journey of sexual and subcultural exploration and traveling down a path toward recovery from alcoholism. In honest, clean prose, Niemann treks off the beaten path and into the forgotten places along the rail lines, finding true American characters with colorful pasts—and her true self as well.</p>
<p>Acknowledgments<br>Introduction to the Indiana edition by Leslie Marmon Silko<br>1. Breaking In<br>2. Under the Freeways<br>3. Boomer in a Boom Town<br>4. Brakettes Invade Tucson<br>5. Pasadena Gothic<br>6. The Monterey Local<br>7. This is the Place<br>8. Cadillac Ranch<br>9. The Pass to the North<br>10. Down the Line<br>11. Versions of Home<br>12. A Road to Ride<br>13. Northline<br>14. Shasta<br>15. End of Track<br>Glossary</p>
<p>One woman's unconventional path to self-discovery</p>
<p>Linda Grant Niemann teaches creative nonfiction at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. She is author of Railroad Noir: The American West at the End of the Twentieth Century (IUP, 2010).</p>
<p>A candid, unsentimental, and un-sensationalized account of a woman's exploration into the diversity of her complex nature—sexual, intellectual, spiritual.</p>
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