Hunting Mr. Heartbreak - Hardcover

Raban, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002720310 ISBN 13: 9780002720311

Publisher: The Harvill Press, 1990

Synopsis

A story of self discovery set against a journey across America. It follows the author as he moves from the social battlefield of Manhattan to rural Alabama, continually reinventing his own character as he travels. By the author of Old Glory and Arabia through a Looking Glass.

About this title

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.

In 1990 Raban, a British citizen, moved from London to Seattle, where he now lives with his daughter.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Harvill Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0002720310
• ISBN 13: 9780002720311
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 428