Greyhound : a memoir / Joanna Pocock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pocock, Joanna, 1965- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pocock, Joanna, 1965---Travel--United States.

Pocock, Joanna.

Bus travel--United States.

Bus travel.

British--United States--Biography.

British.

Grief in women.

United States--Description and travel.

United States.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

[400] pages : black and white illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Soft Skull edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Soft Skull, 2025.

Summary:

"In 2006, Joanna Pocock decided to travel from east to west across the U.S. in a Greyhound bus as she mourned her miscarriages. Seventeen years later, at the start of 2023, and now in her midfifties, Pocock undertook the same journey again. Pocock follows in the wake of Simone de Beauvoir, Ethel Mannin, and Irma Kurtz, who all chronicled their travels across America. Exploring the intersection between capitalism and geography--urban, suburban and rural--and the impact of our relationship to the landscape, she zeroes in on the rivers of tarmac, the gas stations, the suburbs, and the sites of extraction created specifically for our twenty-first-century lifestyles, and their unintended environmental and social consequences. By revisiting the same cities, edgelands, roads, and motels in 2023 as she did in 2006, Pocock dissects the overlap between place and memory, between an earlier, more prosperous version of the United States and one mired in extreme poverty, drug addiction, and a larger division between the wealthy and the dispossessed"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781593768010

159376801X

OCLC:

1520505873