Deep South : Four Seasons on Back Roads (Hardcover)

from konastories

Joy's review: Theroux travels throughout the deep South returning often to places and people over 4 seasons. He focuses on poverty and race and racial relations. For me, Theroux provided many helpful sights and glimpses into lives I will probably never be exposed to. He has a couple of axes to gr...

from PDCRead

After five decades spent exploring and writing about the far-flung and exotic places of the world, Paul Theroux has looked to his home country for inspiration. America has always been a place of contrasts and there is none as stark as the differences between the rest of America and the Deep South...

from debnance

Other travelers might not have noticed it, but Paul Theroux did: Poverty in the deep South here in the USA is reminiscent of poverty in Africa. Sadly, Theroux saw not only economic poverty, but also a poverty of literacy and a poverty of real equality. Over and over, Theroux asked people in the p...

from SamSattler

I have been a fan of Paul Theroux's travel writing for a long time, particularly enjoying the way his work allows the reader to become so totally immersed in worlds that would otherwise forever remain a mystery. Via his books, I have traveled by train, boats, and automobile to places I am unlikel...

from Eyejaybee

Although he has also had considerable success as a writer of fiction, Paul Theroux is probably best known as the pre-eminent travel writer of his generation. His first travel book (and to my mind probably still his finest), 'The Great Railway Bazaar', was published more than forty years ago and c...