Road trips to Las Vegas are the occasion for this entertaining
meditation on the quintessentially American experience of driving
across the desert. William Fox, successively exiled from
California, Nevada, and New Mexico, has spent more time than most
of us driving to Las Vegasand he has taken notes on three recent
trips, his own way of bringing cohesion to the vast and
mind-numbing aspects of the freeway. Approaching the most
postmodern city on the planet from three directions, he examines
the landscape and what we do to it while also trying to figure out
who he is, what that means, and the nature of the transformations
of land into landscape through art and architecture, landscape
design, and advertising. Foxs history of the region, both natural
and cultural, highlights the creep of the urban supergrid across
the most extensively traveled desert in the world.
This is a profoundly personal, even idiosyncratic book about the
most public of subjectsliving in the postmodern West at the end of
the millennium and what the cities, the freeways, the open spaces,
and the billboards tell us about ourselves.
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