Hunting Mister Heartbreak - Softcover

Raban, Jonathan

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9780330320535: Hunting Mister Heartbreak

Softcover

ISBN 10: 033032053X ISBN 13: 9780330320535

Publisher: Picador, 1995

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For hundred of years this sentence has tantalized and inspired Europeans. Jonathan Raban followed in the steps of Hector St John de Cr�vecoeur – Mr Heartbreak – and several million other emigrants to discover America and the immigrant experience afresh. From Liverpool docks he sailed to New York and travelled on to Alabama, Seattle and the Florida Keys. Wherever he went there was a new identity to discover, a new life to live . . .

‘A mordantly funny book that presents itself as a work of reportage but proves to be a work of literature in disguise. It is literary not only in the tightrope acrobatics of its style; its exhilarating verbal inventiveness manages to transform the familiar images and vocabulary of American life into startling novelties’ Edward Mendselson, Daily Telegraph

‘The best book ever written by an Englishman about the United States’ Jan Morris, Independent Books of the Year

‘He is most certainly the finest writer afloat since Conrad, and few landlubbers have equalled either his acuteness or his sense of style’ Geoffrey Moorhouse, Guardian

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Book Description:

‘Having arrived in Liverpool, I took a ship for the New World . . . ’

About the Author:

Jonathan Raban is the author of over a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction, including Passage to Juneau, Bad Land, Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Coasting, Old Glory, Arabia, Soft City, Waxwings and Surveillance. His awards include the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Royal Society of Literature’s Heinemann Award, the Thomas Cook Award, the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award, and the Governor’s Award of the State of Washington. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Harpers, The New York Review of Books, Outside, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, The London Review of Books, and other magazines.