The Glimpse Traveler (Paperback)
| Author: Marianne Boruch |
| Format: | Paperback |
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When she joins a pair of hitchhikers on a trip to California, a youngMidwestern woman embarks on a journey about memory and knowledge, beauty andrealization. This true story, set in 1971, recounts a fateful, nine-day trip intothe American counterculture that begins on a whim and quickly becomes a mission tounravel a tragic mystery. The narrator''s path leads her to Berkeley, San Francisco, Mill Valley, Big Sur, and finally to an abandoned resort motel, now become adown-on-its-luck commune in the desert of southern Colorado. Neither a memoir aboutprivate misery, nor a shocking expos of life in a turbulent era, The GlimpseTraveler describes with wry humor and deep feeling what it was like to witness apeculiar and impossibly rich time. |
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From the Publisher:
When she joins a pair of hitchhikers on a trip to California, a young Midwestern woman embarks on a journey about memory and knowledge, beauty and realization. This true story, set in 1971, recounts a fateful, nine-day trip into the American counterculture that begins on a whim and quickly becomes a mission to unravel a tragic mystery. The narrator's path leads her to Berkeley, San Francisco, Mill Valley, Big Sur, and finally to an abandoned resort motel, now become a down-on-its-luck commune in the desert of southern Colorado. Neither a memoir about private misery, nor a shocking exposé of life in a turbulent era, The Glimpse Traveler describes with wry humor and deep feeling what it was like to witness a peculiar and impossibly rich time. |
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