Freeways
A Journey West on Route 66
Published on 2. October 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
196 pages
978-1-902638-22-5 (ISBN)
Description
A road book about travel and the lure of migration. A drive along Route 66 from Oklahoma through New Mexico and Arizona to the promised land of California. A country obsessed with change and itself, fragmenting into pieces as the drift of manifest prosperity stalls on the coast.
Reviews / Votes
'Evokes a vivid picture of the promised road to prosperity, bringing to life the sweat, toil and seediness along the way.' South Wales Echo.More details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cardigan
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
15 photographs
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 172 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
222 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-902638-22-5 (9781902638225)
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Persons
Lewis Davies' novels include 'Work, Sex and Rugby', 'Tree of Crows' and 'My Piece of Happiness' which he also adapted for the theatre. He won the Rhys Davis prize for 'Mr Roopratna's Chocolate'. He has edited two short fiction anthologies, 'Mama's Baby (Papa's Maybe)' and 'The Urban Welsh'.