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.
Les mer
One woman's unconventional path to self-discovery
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction to the Indiana edition by Leslie Marmon Silko1. Breaking In2. Under the Freeways3. Boomer in a Boom Town4. Brakettes Invade Tucson5. Pasadena Gothic6. The Monterey Local7. This is the Place8. Cadillac Ranch9. The Pass to the North10. Down the Line11. Versions of Home12. A Road to Ride13. Northline14. Shasta15. End of TrackGlossary
Les mer
Niemann has a taut, lyrically restrained but vividly descriptive style, with an observational vigilance befitting a brakeman's mindset, and her narrative clips along like a boxcar rolling through the yard. June/July 2011
Les mer
A candid, unsentimental, and un-sensationalized account of a woman's exploration into the diversity of her complex nature—sexual, intellectual, spiritual.
One woman's unconventional path to self-discovery

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780253222831
Publisert
2011-04-07
Utgiver
Vendor
Indiana University Press
Vekt
431 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
280

Forfatter
Introduction by

Biographical note

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).