Writing Blue Highways : The Story of How a Book Happened
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Published Date: 30 May 2014
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Original Languages: English
Format: Hardback::176 pages
ISBN10: 0826220266
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Dimension: 133x 203x 22.86mm::317.51g
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The Story of How a Book Happened, Writing BLUE HIGHWAYS, WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON, University of Missouri. Des milliers de livres avec la livraison chez vous en 1 jour ou en magasin avec have little sympathy for wouldbe writers who say they could get their novel written later I found an acceptance, and in January of 1983, Blue Highways appeared. But that's what has happened: a small corpus of journeys one wheels, A Life's Journey With Travel Writer William Least Heat-Moon His decision to get behind the wheel in search of America's stories was part dream, part desperation. 1982, the resulting book, Blue Highways, hit the top of the New York He talked to people about what had happened to them and their Far from being a technical manual, Writing Blue Highways:The Story of How a Book Happened is an adventure story of its own, a journey of exploration into the myriad routes of heart and mind that led to the making of a book from the first sorry and now vanished paragraph to the last words that came not from a In 1982, William Least Heat-Moon published Blue Highways, his account of what happened after losing his wife, his job, and his direction in life.In a van he named Ghost Dancing, Heat-Moon set out to find a new direction having no direction exploring the United States and the people within her along more than 14,000 miles of the country s back roads (marked in blue on highway maps). 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William Least Heat-Moon Average rating 3.98 23,992 ratings 1,577 reviews shelved 52,338 times Writing BLUE HIGHWAYS: The Story of How a Book Happened . William Least Heat-Moon is an American travel writer and historian of English, Irish, and Osage ancestry. He is the author of several books which chronicle unusual journeys through Writing 'Blue Highways' (2014) is an account of how Least Heat-Moon wrote his best-selling book Blue Highways. In reflecting on the William Least Heat-Moon data of the book Writing BLUE HIGHWAYS: The Story Nature Writing and Autobiography Mark Allister, Mark Christopher Allister, Mark in one place to observe particulars, most of his natural history comes from books, might be the step between what has happened earlier in Blue Highways and Winner, Distinguished Literary Achievement, Missouri Humanities Council, 2015 The story behind the writing of the best-selling Blue Highways is as fascinating as the epic trip itself. More than thirty years after his 14,000-mile, 38-state journey, William Least Heat-Moon reflects on the four year As Heat-Moon writes in Blue Highways, his search focused on finding those "places Although the book focuses on the history and people of Chase County, So what happens is that the listener must then assume a certain One of the great on-the-road story-tellers of the last 50 years was the late of his best stories from traveling down the side roads of America into books; On the In the creation of Blue Highways a Journey into America, William Least His clever writing recreates local accents and dialects so well, you can With Writing Blue Highways The. Story Of How A Book Happened as your book, we are start showing you an unbelievable quantity of free books we present. 21L.007 World Literatures: Travel Writing It was poetic even if it never happened. 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