Boomer - Railroad Memoirs

Informationen zum Autor Linda G. Niemann, introduction by Leslie Marmon Silko Klappentext This classic account of self discovery and railroad life describes Linda Grant Niemann's travels as an itinerant brakeman on the Southern Pacific. Boomer combines travelogue, Wild West adventure, sexual memoir, and closely observed ethnography. A Berkeley Ph.D., Niemann turned her back on academia and set out to master the craft of railroad brakeman, beginning a journey of sexual and subcultural exploration and traveling down a path toward recovery from alcoholism. In honest, clean prose, Niemann treks off the beaten path and into the forgotten places along the rail lines, finding true American characters with colorful pasts-and her true self as well. Zusammenfassung One woman's unconventional path to self-discovery Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction to the Indiana edition by Leslie Marmon Silko 1.Breaking In 2.Under the Freeways 3.Boomer in a Boom Town 4.Brakettes Invade Tucson 5.Pasadena Gothic 6.The Monterey Local 7.This is the Place 8.Cadillac Ranch 9.The Pass to the North 10.Down the Line 11.Versions of Home 12.A Road to Ride 13.Northline 14.Shasta 15.End of Track Glossary

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Linda G Niemann, Linda G. Niemann, Niemann Linda G, Leslie Marmon Silko
• Collaboration: Introduction by Leslie Marmon Silko Lind (Editeur)
• Edition: Indiana University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 07.04.2011
• EAN: 9780253222831
• ISBN: 978-0-253-22283-1
• Pages: 280
• Thèmes: Railroads Past and Present (Pa; Railroads Past and Present; Indiana University Press; Railroads Past and Present (Pa
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits) > Correspondance, journaux intimes; Littérature spécialisée > Politique, société, économie > Biographies, autobiographies; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Biography / Autobiography