Published in 1983 to phenomenal reviews, Blue Highways: A Journey into America became a cult classic on par with Jack Kerouac's On the Road and John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley. In this highly acclaimed, bestselling memoir, a 38-year-old laid-off college professor of Sioux and white blood drives around the U.S. on the "blue highways, " the rural back made that are colored blue on old maps. The places he discovers during his 13,000-mile journey are unexpected, sometimes mysterious, and often full of simply the wonder of the ordinary.-- Blue Highways received extraordinary reviews when it was first published.
William Least Heat-Moon Livres
27 août 1939
William Least Heat-Moon est un écrivain de voyage américain d'ascendance anglaise, irlandaise et de la Nation Osage. Il est réputé pour sa trilogie à succès de récits de voyage topographiques aux États-Unis. Ses œuvres plongent dans le terrain et la culture américains, capturant l'essence des lieux et de leurs habitants. Son écriture se caractérise par une observation perspicace et une perspective unique sur le paysage américain.
Robert Penn Warren pronounced Heat-Moon's Blue Highways "a masterpiece." Now Heat-Moon has pulled to the side of the road and set off on foot to take readers on an exploration of time and space, landscape and history in the Flint Hills of central Kansas.