Rolling Nowhere

Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes

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Ted Conover

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Vintage Departures

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In Ted Conover's first book, now back in print, he enters a segment of humanity outside society and reports back on a world few of us would chose to enter but about which we are all curious. Hoboes fascinated Conover, but he had only encountered them in literature and folksongs. So, he decided to take a year off and ride the rails. Equipped with rummage-store clothing, a bedroll, and a few other belongings, he hops a freight train in St. Louis, becoming a tramp in order to discover their peculiar culture. The men and women he meets along the way are by turns generous and mistrusting, resourceful and desperate, philosophical and profoundly cynical. And the narrative he creates of his travels with them is unforgettable and moving.

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Ted Conover is the author most recently of the National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing. He lives in New York City.

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September 11th, 2001

Author

Ted Conover

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General (US: Trade)

Pages

304

Series

Vintage Departures

Dimensions

132x203x16

ISBN-13

9780375727863

Product ID

3866565

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