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Writing Blue highways : the story of how a book happened / William Least Heat-Moon.
Van Pelt Library E169.04 .H424 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heat Moon, William Least.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heat Moon, William Least. Blue highways.
- Heat Moon, William Least.
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Authorship.
- Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings, American.
- Physical Description:
- 164 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia [Missouri] : University of Missouri Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- The story behind the writing of the best-selling Blue Highways is as fascinating as the epic trip itself. More than thirty years after his 14,000-mile, 38-state journey, William Least Heat-Moon reflects on the four years he spent capturing the lessons of the road trip on paper--the stops and starts in his composition process, the numerous drafts and painstaking revisions, the depressing string of rejections by publishers, the strains on his personal relationships, and many other aspects of the toil that went into writing his first book. Along the way, he traces the hard lessons learned and offers guidance to aspiring and experienced writers alike.
- Contents:
- Hacking out
- The journey contemplated
- Onto the blue roads
- Following a Blackfeet pencil
- The pretzel versus the book
- A guy in a metal suicide-box
- A piece of the spectrum
- A burglar and a surgeon
- The secret society begins to emerge
- The wheel and the plaque
- An appendix of sorts.
- ISBN:
- 0826220266
- 9780826220264
- OCLC:
- 867020655
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