As Far As You Can Go Without A Passport: Views From The End Of The Road - Hardcover

Bodett, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0201106612 ISBN 13: 9780201106619

Publisher: Da Capo Press, 1985

Synopsis

Homespun humor about the way we live, from the pleasant futility of salmon fishing and the joys of Halloween, to quiet afternoons with soap opera families and endless nights in pursuit of trivia

About this title

From the Back Cover:

As Far As You Can Go Without a Passport, Bodett's first collection of casual essays, contains pieces on everything from trapping, tree cutting, and halibut fishing, to soap operas, lost socks, and sleeping in. Its's guaranteed to please both the renegade and the homebody in every reader.

About the Author:

Tom Bodett was born in 1955 and grew up in Sturgis, Michigan. He has been a cannery worker, a logger, an independent building contractor, and a commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.” He is the author of a previous collection, As Far As You Can Go Without a Passport, and is the national media pitchman for Motel 6. He lives with his wife and son in Homer, Alaska, from where he hosted The End of the Road Review,” a nationally syndicated weekly radio variety show.

About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0201106612
• ISBN 13: 9780201106619
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 143