In this book the author goes back to her American roots by travelling all over the country on a Greyhound bus. Unhampered by luggage, she entered a world of brief encounters and changing landscapes.;Fascinated more by the people on each bus than by the places flashing outside the window, Irma Kurtz creates a portrait of America reflected in the hundreds of characters she observes from the close quarters of the bus. Feeling herself to be "invisible" as she passes into middle age, she senses a freedom to watch and record other people.
Kurtz is the agony aunt for "Cosmopolitan" magazine.
| ISBN: | 9781857021851 |
| Publication date: | 24th January 1994 |
| Author: | Irma Kurtz |
| Publisher: | 4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 314 pages |
| Genres: |
Travel writing |
In this book the author goes back to her American roots by travelling all over the country on a Greyhound bus. Unhampered by luggage, she entered a world of brief encounters and changing landscapes.;Fascinated more by the people on each bus than by the places flashing outside the window, Irma Kurtz creates a portrait of America reflected in the hundreds of characters she observes from the close quarters of the bus.
The Great American Bus Ride features in the following genres: Travel writing
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The Great American Bus Ride was written by Irma Kurtz and published by 4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
The Great American Bus Ride has 314 pages