 | - Book Title: A Long Road Home journeys through America's present in search of America's past
- Author: Geoffrey O'Gara
- ISBN: 0393026434
- Publisher: W W Norton
- Year Published: 1989
- Our Normal Price: £14.30 GBP ($0.00 USD)
- 10% Discounted Price: £12.87 GBP ($0.00 USD)
- Description: W W Norton & Co 1989, first edition, mulberry coloured boards and lettering on white cloth spine, dust jacket, approximate 14.5 x 21 cm tall, 312 pages, black and white photographic illustration. Synopsis: The author, Geoffrey O'Gara retraces the footsteps of indiginent American writers of the 1930s, who journeyed along the back roads of the States to produce a series of guides as part of a New Deal Programme known as the Federal Writers Project. Each nostalgic, evocative journey included a point of departure and destination as the author searches for remnants of the 1930s America originally described. The sections include a prologue entitled Leaving Wyoming, a journey with point of departure Washington D C and destination The Smoke Hole, a journey with point of departure New York City and destination Barre Vermont, a journey with point of departure New Orleans and destination Plaquemines Delta, a journey with point of departure Kansas City and destination Smith Centerr, a journey with point of departure Knot'ts Berry Farm and destination Los Angeles, a journey with point of departure Glendale and destination Monterey, and an epilogue entitled Return to Wyoming. Condition: Small Tippex erasure to front free end paper, overall very clean firm and good
- Condition: See Above
- Dustcover: No
- Binding: Hardback
- Type: Used Books
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