Synopses & Reviews
About a quarter century ago, a largely unknown wanderer named William Least Heat-Moon wrote a book called Blue Highways. It was a travel book like no other, a book that revealed its author to be a chronicler of rare linguitic genius and empathy, a listener who knew that the small places can offer the biggest surprises. Heat-Moon, wrote one reader, was a travel writer as Faulkner was a country historian.
Road to Quoz is Heat-Moon's long-awaited return to America's back roads. It is a lyrical, funny, and magisterially told chronicle of American passage, a journey into the heart of a nation almost desperate for meaning beyond consumerism and self-absorption, a book that invites readers to "discover America anew." (Christian Science Monitor).
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"As fans of his 1982 classic Blue Highways know, Least Heat-Moon loves the funky byways of America, which he revisits in this fat, rambling, and altogether wonderful new collection of travel tales. Grade: A" Entertainment Weekly
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"An amiable, literate tour of America's byways, in the company of the poet laureate of the back road. Heat-Moon.... Residents of states not mentioned will surely wish that Heat-Moon's quozzical travels had taken him there as well a pleasure for his fans, who are deservingly many." Kirkus Reviews
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"Heat-Moon's journey is as meandering as the Ouachita itself, and readers will relish the experiences he and Q describe along their trip. He has not lost his skills in painting unforgettable portraits of places and people few of us will ever encounter." Joseph L. Carlson, Library Journal
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William Least Heat-Moon's Roads to Quoz...is a lucid if looping account of three years of wanderings that covered some 16,000 miles, mostly in the company of the author's wife (referred to as "Q"), a witness whose favorite Parker saying "What fresh hell is this?" is invoked more than once. Art Winslow, Los Angeles Times (read the entire Los Angeles Times review)
Synopsis
About a quarter century ago, a previously unknown writer named William Least Heat-Moon wrote a book called
Blue Highways. Acclaimed as a classic, it was a travel book like no other. Quirky, discursive, endlessly curious, Heat-Moon had embarked on an American journey off the beaten path. Sticking to the small places via the small roads those colored blue on maps he uncovered a nation deep in character, story, and charm.
Now, for the first time since Blue Highways, Heat-Moon is back on the backroads. Roads to Quoz is his lyrical, funny, and touching account of a series of American journeys into small-town America.
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For the first time since the acclaimed "Blue Highways," Heat-Moon is back on the backroads with this lyrical, funny, and touching account of a series of American journeys into small-town America.
Synopsis
In his previous book "Blue Highways," Heat-Moon had embarked on an American journey off the beaten path. Now, the author is back on the backroads, in this lyrical, funny, and touching account of his series of journeys into small-town America.
About the Author
William Least Heat-Moon is the author of the bestselling classics Roads to Quoz, Blue Highways, River Horse, and PrairyEarth. He lives in Columbia, Missouri.