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Writing BLUE HIGHWAYS - The Story of How a Book Happened
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Writing BLUE HIGHWAYS - The Story of How a Book Happened
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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 years he spent capturing the lessons
of the road trip on paper--the stops and starts in his composition
process, the numerous drafts and painstaking revisions, the
depressing string of rejections by publishers, the strains on his
personal relationships, and many other aspects of the toil that
went into writing his first book. Along the way, he traces the hard
lessons learned and offers guidance to aspiring and experienced
writers alike. 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 graphite pencil but from a letterpress in
Tennessee.”Readers will not find a collection of abstract
formulations and rules for writing; rather, this book gracefully
incorporates examples from Heat-Moon’s own experience. As he
explains, “This story might be termed an inadvertent
autobiography written not by the traveler who took Ghost Dancing in
1978 over the byroads of America but by a man only listening to
him. That blue-roadman hasn’t been seen in more than a third of a
century, and over the last many weeks as I sketched in these pages,
I’ve regretted his inevitable departure.” Filtered as the
struggles of the “blue-roadman” are through the awareness of
someone more than thirty years older with a half dozen subsequent
books to his credit, the story of how his first book “happened”
is all the more resonant for readers who may not themselves be
writers but who are interested in the tricky balance of intuitive
creation and self-discipline required for any artistic endeavour.
General
Imprint: |
University of Missouri Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2023 |
Authors: |
William Least Heat Moon
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Dimensions: |
203 x 133mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
182 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8262-2295-4 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8262-2295-1 |
Barcode: |
9780826222954 |
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