Boomer - Linda G. Niemann

Boomer

Railroad Memoirs
Buch | Softcover
280 Seiten
2011
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-22283-1 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
One woman's unconventional path to self-discovery
This classic account of self discovery and railroad life describes Linda Grant Niemann's travels as an itinerant brakeman on the Southern Pacific. Boomer combines travelogue, Wild West adventure, sexual memoir, and closely observed ethnography. A Berkeley Ph.D., Niemann turned her back on academia and set out to master the craft of railroad brakeman, beginning a journey of sexual and subcultural exploration and traveling down a path toward recovery from alcoholism. In honest, clean prose, Niemann treks off the beaten path and into the forgotten places along the rail lines, finding true American characters with colorful pasts—and her true self as well.

Linda Grant Niemann teaches creative nonfiction at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. She is author of Railroad Noir: The American West at the End of the Twentieth Century (IUP, 2010).

Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Indiana edition by Leslie Marmon Silko
1. Breaking In
2. Under the Freeways
3. Boomer in a Boom Town
4. Brakettes Invade Tucson
5. Pasadena Gothic
6. The Monterey Local
7. This is the Place
8. Cadillac Ranch
9. The Pass to the North
10. Down the Line
11. Versions of Home
12. A Road to Ride
13. Northline
14. Shasta
15. End of Track
Glossary

Reihe/Serie Railroads Past and Present
Einführung Leslie Marmon Silko
Verlagsort Bloomington, IN
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 431 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
Technik
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Makroökonomie
ISBN-10 0-253-22283-4 / 0253222834
ISBN-13 978-0-253-22283-1 / 9780253222831
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