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Slow Road to San Francisco

Across the USA from Ocean to Ocean

David Reynolds author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Muswell Press

Published:18th Nov '21

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A candid, humorous and perceptive eye on America. This paperback edition includes a new introduction covering the Presidential election.

From Ocean City, Maryland to San Francisco, Reynolds traverses the back roads and small towns of the USA, taking the pulse of Trump's America as he goes. With remarkable candour and insight, not to mention a humorous and sometimes sceptical eye, he observes the States today. This edition is updated with a new introductionAs he moseys from east to west, driving slowly, stopping frequently he meets Trump's countrymen and women - white, black, Hispanic, Asian, native American; Christian, Muslim, atheist, Mormon, Mennonite; rich, middling, poor. They talk about everything from slavery and Indian reservations to , Butch Cassidy, and Marilyn Monroe. Everyone has something to say about Donald Trump, whether they love him or hate him, and the outcome of the presidential election Reynolds follows the direction of history, the direction taken by explorers and pioneer settlers. As he travels he conjures a vivid picture of the US then and now; its landscape and its people in all their diversity

'A writer of calm, quiet brilliance' Daily Express. 'Reynolds is the perfect man for the route' Observer. 'America's vitality and variety have seldom been more vividly captured; Mick Brown. 'Bloody gorgeous and so needed right now' Stella Duffy. 'Hugely enjoyable travelogue'. David Allen Country Music People. 'What a joy of a book'. Lucinda Lampton The Oldie

  • Short-listed for Pen/Ackerley Prize 2016

ISBN: 9781838340162

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

320 pages

2nd Revised edition