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Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America

Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America

Raban, Jonathan

Paperback

Series: Vintage Departures

Travel Writing20th Century United States HistoryGeneral United States

ISBN10: 037570101X
ISBN13: 9780375701016
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Nov 3 1998
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - An exhilarating, often deliciously funny and beautifully written voyage of discovery (Chicago Tribune) that is at once a travelogue, a social history, and a love letter to America. - From the bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land

In 1782 an immigrant with the high-toned name J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur--Heartbreak in English--wrote a pioneering account of one European's transformation into an American. Some two hundred years later Jonathan Raban, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, arrived in Crèvecoeur's wake to see how America has paid off for succeeding generations of newcomers.

In the course of Hunting Mr. Heartbreak, Raban passes for homeless in New York and tries to pass for a good ol' boy in Alabama (which entails renting an elderly black lab). He sees the Protestant work ethic perfected by Korean immigrants in Seattle--one of whom celebrates her new home as So big! So green! So wide-wide-wide!--and repudiated by the lowlife of Key West. And on every page of this peerlessly observant work, Raban makes us experience America with wonder, humor, and an unblinking eye for its contradictions.

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