Things I Like About America: Personal Narratives by Poe Ballantine - Softcover

Ballantine, Poe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971691517 ISBN 13: 9780971691513

Publisher: Hawthorne Books, 2002

Synopsis

Poe Ballantine’s risky, personal essays are populated with odd jobs, eccentric characters, boarding houses, buses, and beer. He takes us along on his Greyhound journey through small town America (including a detour to Mexico) exploring what it means to be human. Written with piercing intimacy and self-effacing humor, Ballantine’stories provide entertainment, social commentary, and completely compelling slices of life.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This long awaited debut collection of nonfiction stories by Poe Ballantine is sure to please fans who have been reading Ballantines essays in various publications over the years.

From the Inside Flap:

Meet the new guide on the lonesome highway. Poe Ballanatine has written the story we live so completely we cannot seem to remember it. His wry voice, clear eye, hilarious accounts and lyrical language brings us up short by reminding us that America has always been about flight and for most of its citizens it has been about defeat. His wanderings, drifters, bad motels, cheap wine, dead end jobs and drugs take us home, the home Betty Crocker never lived in. But then Betty Crocker never existed anyway. We're on the road again, but this time we know better than to hope for a rumbling V-8 and any answers blowing in the wind. The bus has been a long time coming but thank God it has arrived with Mr. Ballantine aboard. Sit down and give him a listen and make your own list of Things I Like About America.

—Charles Bowden, author of Blues for Cannibals and Blood Orchid

About this edition

• Publisher: Hawthorne Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0971691517
• ISBN 13: 9780971691513
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224