Kiss the Sunset Pig: An American Road Trip with Exotic Detours - Softcover

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As we get older, we grow these shells around our hearts and minds, shells which young people don't have yet. If only we could keep that openness all our lives, that belief the world is shot through with blazing stars. Laurie Gough is heading west across the USA in a beaten-up old car named Marcia, hoping this is a homecoming to the land of her dreams. Back in her early twenties, she stayed in a cave on a California beach for six days and found purpose in her life while listening to waves in the moonlight. The trouble is, she's lost the enthusiasm she had back then. As she makes her way slowly across the country, meeting a colourful variety of hitchhikers and mechanics and waltresses, she recalls the adventures she's had in different places around the world - Sumatra, the Yukon, Korea, Thailand, Greece and Jamaica - trying to discover where she lost her younger, more free-spirited self. As she closes in on her destination, she peels back the layers of cynicism that life built up around her, and finds that our old selves may be inside us, if we only bother to look.

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A curious traveller with a good ear for dialogue and a wild way with words. -- Anthony Sattin

An engaging storyteller... Reading this book is like travelling all over again. -- Don George, Salon.com

Gough has a gift for self-deprecatingly wry humour... a true gem. -- Winnipeg Free Press, Canada

Inspiring, funny and touching. -- Isabel Losada

Kiss the Sunset Pig - a frequently funny, sporadically profound account of Laurie Gough's drive west across America. -- Traveller magazine

Kiss the Sunset Pig is elegant, funny and poignant. I couldn't bear it to end. -- Polly Evans

Reading this book was like spending a glorious weekend reminiscing with a funny, intelligent, and well-travelled friend. -- Real Travel
About the Author:
Laurie Gough is the author of Kite Strings of the Southern Cross, finalist for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and winner of ForeWord magazine's Silver Medal for Travel Book of the Year. She contributes to salon.com, the Globe and Mail, the Los Angeles Times and numerous travel anthologies.

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  • PublisherSummersdale
  • Publication date2005
  • ISBN 10 1840244887
  • ISBN 13 9781840244885
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