Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes

In Ted Conover's first book, now back in print, he enters a segment of humanity outside society...
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Author: Ted Conover
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Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes by Conover, Ted

Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes

BD$27.99

Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes

BD$27.99
Author: Ted Conover
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In Ted Conover's first book, now back in print, he enters a segment of humanity outside society and reports back on a world few of us would chose to enter but about which we are all curious.

Hoboes fascinated Conover, but he had only encountered them in literature and folksongs. So, he decided to take a year off and ride the rails. Equipped with rummage-store clothing, a bedroll, and a few other belongings, he hops a freight train in St. Louis, becoming a tramp in order to discover their peculiar culture. The men and women he meets along the way are by turns generous and mistrusting, resourceful and desperate, philosophical and profoundly cynical. And the narrative he creates of his travels with them is unforgettable and moving.

Author: Ted Conover
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/11/2001
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.31h x 4.89w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780375727863

About the Author
Ted Conover is the author most recently of the National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing. He lives in New York City.


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