Old Glory (Picador Books) - Softcover

Raban, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330292293 ISBN 13: 9780330292290

Publisher: Picador USA, 1995

Synopsis

Winner of the Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award and the Thomas Cook Award. A stunning success...Raban takes us floating through the heart of America...more successful than 99% of the books about America since De Tocqueville's Democracy in America' New York Times 'Mr Raban has a keen ear, but, for the river itself, he has to evince not only a keen eye but a capacity to use a painter's palette. He gives us the strong brown god in all its rage, sullenness and beauty' Anthony Burgess, Observer 'This is a fascinating and enchanting book. It is never dull, and yet there are facts aplenty to be picked up on the way. I enjoyed every mile of the journey' Evening Standard

About this title

From the Publisher:

12 1.5-hour cassettes

About the Author:

Jonathan Raban is the author of Passage to Juneau, Bad Land , Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Coasting, Old Glory, Arabia, Soft City and the novels Foreign Land (1985) and Waxwings (2003). His awards include 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 has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta , Harpers, the New York Review of Books, Outside, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, and other magazines. In 1990 Raban, a British citizen, moved from London to Seattle, where he now lives with his daughter.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador USA
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0330292293
• ISBN 13: 9780330292290
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 530