Driving Home by Jonathan Raban
For more than thirty years, Jonathan Raban has written with infectious fascination about people and places in transition or on the margins, about journeys undertaken and destinations never quite reached, and, as an expat, about what it means to feel rooted in America. Spanning two decades, Driving Home charts a course through the Pacific Northwest, American history, and current events as witnessed by a super-sensitive, all-seeing eye. Proving that an outsider is the keenest observer of the scene that natives take for granted, this collection of Jonathan Raban's essays affirms his place as the most literate, perceptive, and humorous commentator on the places, characters, and obsessions that constitute the American scene. Raban spots things we might otherwise miss; he calls up the apt metaphors that transform things into phenomena. He is one of our most gifted observers. (Newsday).Jonathan Raban, the author of Waxwings and Passage to Juneau, was born in England and has lived in Seattle since 1990. The National Book Critics Circle Prize, the Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Association's Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington are among his accolades.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780307379917 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307379914 |
| Title | Driving Home |
| Author | Jonathan Raban |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books |
| Year published | 2011-09-13 |
| Number of pages | 493 |
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