'Jonathan Raban is simply one of the great writers of non-fiction
at work today. I hold his work in awe.' Robert Macfarlane
'Unfailingly witty and entertaining.' Salman Rushdie Following in
the footsteps of countless emigrants, Jonathan Raban takes ship for
New York from Liverpool, to explore how succeeding generations of
newcomers have fared in America. He finds a country of massive
contrasts, between the Street People and the Air People in New
York, between small town and big city, between thrusting immigrants
and down-at-heel native Americans. Having outgrown his minute
rented New York apartment, he heads for Guntersville, Alabama,
where he settles for a few months as a good ol' boy in a cabin on
the lake with a 'rented' elderly lab. From there he flies to the
promise of Seattle, discovering its thrusting but alienated Asian
community and thence to the watery lowlife of Key West. The result
is a breathtaking observation of the States - a travelogue, a
social history and a love letter in one.
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