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Road Scholar: Coast To Coast Late in the Century

Inspired by the classic Kerouac tradition of mixing writing with wanderlust, poet and National Public Radio regular Andrei Codrescu chronicles his own picaresque trek through America in this raucous, resonant memoir. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year in Hyperion hardcover.

Subject
travel
Setting
20th centuryUSA
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages
Form
essays

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