No Particular Place to Go
Author | : Hugo Williams |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2012-05-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780571295203 |
ISBN-13 | : 0571295207 |
Rating | : 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Download or read book No Particular Place to Go written by Hugo Williams and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A hilarious book of bad times, bedtimes and benders. It is a kind of cool parody of On the Road.' New Statesman No Particular Place to Go (first published in 1981) relates Hugo Williams's journey across the USA on a three-month poetry-reading tour wherein he also hoped to discover some of the America he had imagined for so long on the strength of its all-consuming popular culture. ' No Particular Place to Go isn't a book that you'd take on a visitor's itinerary of the States . . . But the journey it describes is a potent one . . . It offered a poet's eye on modern culture, a cool, sideways perspective on its consumers and an enviable traveller's voice - not just unafraid of meeting the locals but positively keen to jump in and grab whatever was on offer.' John Walsh, Independent