Driving Home
An American Scrapbook
Published on 21. June 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
624 pages
978-0-330-48082-6 (ISBN)
Description
Driving Home is a collection of Jonathan Raban's travel writing and essays, spanning two decades and charting its course through American history and world events.
Jonathan Raban has written about people and places in transition or on the margins, of journeys undertaken and destinations never quite reached; of isolation and alienation, but also of what it means to belong, to feel rooted.
He writes with an outsider's eye for the public and the personal, about political, social, and cultural affairs, and about literature, his tone intimate but never nostalgic, and always fresh.
Variously frank, witty, and provocative, Driving Home is part essay collection, part diary - and wholly engrossing.
'A passionate history buff and a skilled raconteur . . . it's a fine ride' - Sunday Times
'A fabulous collection' - Observer
Jonathan Raban has written about people and places in transition or on the margins, of journeys undertaken and destinations never quite reached; of isolation and alienation, but also of what it means to belong, to feel rooted.
He writes with an outsider's eye for the public and the personal, about political, social, and cultural affairs, and about literature, his tone intimate but never nostalgic, and always fresh.
Variously frank, witty, and provocative, Driving Home is part essay collection, part diary - and wholly engrossing.
'A passionate history buff and a skilled raconteur . . . it's a fine ride' - Sunday Times
'A fabulous collection' - Observer
Reviews / Votes
Teems with acerbic humour . . . 600 relentlessly intelligent pages of erudite, witty and combative prose. -- Patrick McGrath * Guardian 'Book of the Week' * A passionate history buff and a skilled raconteur . . . it's a fine ride. * Sunday Times * A fabulous collection. * Observer *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
742 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-330-48082-6 (9780330480826)
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Jonathan Raban was the author of over a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction, including Passage to Juneau, Bad Land, Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Coasting, Old Glory, Arabia, Soft City, Waxwings and Surveillance. Over the span of six decades, he won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award, the Thomas Cook Award, the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, and the Governor's Award of the State of Washington. His work appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Harpers, The New York Review of Books, Outside, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, The London Review of Books, and other magazines.
In 1990 Raban, a British citizen, moved from London to Seattle, where he lived with his daughter until his death in 2023.
In 1990 Raban, a British citizen, moved from London to Seattle, where he lived with his daughter until his death in 2023.