Rainbow Pie - A Memoir of Redneck America

About the author

Born in Winchester, Virginia, Joe Bageant served in the US Navy during the Vietnam era and then moved west, living in communes and hippie school buses in and around Boulder, Colorado. In 1971, he began writing about countercultural figures such as Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary and Hunter S. Thompson. More recently, his online column (www.joebageant.com) made him a cult hero among gonzo-journalism junkies and progressives and, as a commentator on the politics of class in America, he was featured in documentary films in Britain, Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Italy, and Sweden. He was the author of two books - both published by Portobello - Deer Hunting With Jesus Guns, Votes, Debt And Delusion In Redneck America (2008) which was adapted for the theatre, and Rainbow Pie: A Memoir of Redneck America (2010). Joe died in March 2011, aged 64.

Product details

• Authors: Bageant Joe
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2011
• EAN: 9781846272585
• ISBN: 978-1-84627-258-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 242 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; USA, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, Memoirs, Poverty & unemployment, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Poverty and precarity, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs