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092 0  973|bengelska 
100 1  Theroux, Paul,|d1941- 
245 00 Deep South :|bfour seasons on back roads /|cPaul Theroux :
       [photos by Steve McCurry] 
264    Boston, Mass. :|bHoughton Mifflin,|c2015 
300    441 pages :|billustrations (chiefly color) ;|c24 cm 
500    "An Eamon Dolan Book"--Title page 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0  Fall : "You gotta be going there to get there" -- 
       Interlude : the taboo word -- Winter : "Ones born today 
       don't know how it was" -- Interlude : the paradoxes of 
       Faulkner -- Spring : redbud in bloom -- Interlude : the 
       fantastications of Southern fiction -- Summer : the odor 
       of sun-heated roads 
520 2  "One of the most acclaimed travel writers of our time 
       turns his unflinching eye on an American South too often 
       overlooked. Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing 
       the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich 
       history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the first 
       time, in his tenth travel book, Theroux explores a piece 
       of America--the Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical 
       place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, 
       and yet also some of the nation's worst schools, housing, 
       and unemployment rates. It's these parts of the South, so 
       often ignored, that have caught Theroux's keen traveler's 
       eye. On road trips spanning four seasons, wending along 
       rural highways, Theroux visits gun shows and small-town 
       churches, laborers in Arkansas, and parts of Mississippi 
       where they still call the farm up the road 'the 
       plantation.' He talks to mayors and social workers, 
       writers and reverends, the working poor and farming 
       families--the unsung heroes of the south, the people who, 
       despite it all, never left, and also those who returned 
       home to rebuild a place they could never live without. 
       From the writer whose 'great mission has always been to 
       transport us beyond that reading chair, to challenge 
       himself--and thus, to challenge us' (Boston Globe), Deep 
       South is an ode to a region, vivid and haunting, full of 
       life and loss alike"--|cProvided by publisher 
600 10 Theroux, Paul|xTravel|zSouthern States 
600 17 Theroux, Paul.|2fast 
650  0 Scenic byways|zSouthern States 
650  0 Seasons|zSouthern States 
650  7 Reseskildringar|2saogf 
650  7 Manners and customs.|2fast 
650  7 Social conditions.|2fast 
650  7 Travel.|2fast 
651  0 Southern States|xDescription and travel 
651  0 Southern States|xSocial life and customs 
651  0 Southern States|xSocial conditions 
651  0 Southern States|vBiography 
651  7 Förenta staterna|zSydstaterna|2sao 
651  7 Southern States 
655  7 Travel writing.|2fast 
655  7 Biography.|2fast 
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