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A book about the New Age movement and its American heartland. It concerns the author's travels around the south-western United States of Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, and her encounters with some of that region's most unusual communities and individuals.
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"McGrath is a cool-eyed chronicler of a dispossessed generation – philosophical, astute and ultimately unforgiving. This is no pseudo rock'n'roll road trip, but an accessible and insightful study of the modern condition. The final autobiographical chapter is breathtaking."
DEBORAH BOSLEY, 'Literary Review'
"McGrath meets the nation's lost souls of the New Age. A 267-year-old princess from the tribe of Atlantis, a technoshaman, an alien who talks to Barbie dolls, an overweight angel and a prince who will never die all impress her with their certainties as much as they depress her with their chronic self-awareness. It's an ambitious debut: McGrath has a keen sense for deadpan descriptions of off-kilter encounters, and an acute knack for deflating the Myth."
EMER BRIZZOLARA, 'Ikon'
"Fortifying herself with booze, cigarettes and a useful amount of asperity and common sense, McGrath painstakingly trawls the aisles of the spiritual supermarket. She writes beautifully about the terrain, offers deliciously dyspeptic observations...and is very funny on the sense of spiralling dislocation which arises from being confronted not just with unfamiliar behaviour but with 'an entirely inner architecture'."
MICK BROWN, 'Daily Telegraph'
McGrath has a fine, questing mind, a splendid eye for detail and a healthily cynical attitude. Confronted at every turn – in her deliciously sardonic picaresque travelogue through America's south-western desert states – by the strange, the sinister and the just plain barmy...she maintains a fine, dense and colourful narrative that brings the desert landscape and the loony-tune New Agers vividly to life."
NICK CURTIS, 'Financial Times'
Melanie McGrath is the author of the highly acclaimed ‘Motel Nirvana’, which won the 1996 John Llewellyn Rhys ‘Mail on Sunday’ prize for the best new British writer under 35, and the bestselling ‘Silvertown’. ‘Hopping’ is her fifth book. She lives and works in London.
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0002553538
- ISBN 13 9780002553537
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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Book Description Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 228 pp., endpaper maps, illustrated dustwrapper, several tiny rubs to edges. Nothing less than the spiritual anatomy of a culture coming apart at the seams. Drawing on the myth and history of the Southwest, McGrath enjoys the singular perspective of the outsider looking in. An interesting, amusing, as well as fascinating account by a woman who travelled through America's southwestern desert communities and towns, encountering and talking with a wide array of UFOlogists, New Age prctitioners, ex-hippies, tree-huggers, aliens, immortals, inner children, conspiracy theorists, and others, coming away with impressions of much poignancy, weirdness, and general strangeness. Author's acclaimed first book. Full number line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: New Age & Alternative; United States; Travel & Places. ISBN: 0002553538. ISBN/EAN: 9780002553537. Inventory No: 0264843. Seller Inventory # 0264843
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