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The memoirs of Amtrack brakeman/conductor, Linda Niemann.
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"Ma[kes] the railroad experience come alive with all its grit, danger, romance, and general outrageousness... Possibly the finest book I've ever read about the actual experience of working on the railroad." -- Kevin Keefe, Trains Magazine "A candid, unsentimental, and un-sensationalized account of a woman's exploration into the diversity of her complex nature -- sexual, intellectual, spiritual." -- Martha Banta, University of California, Los Angeles "As a bisexual, counter-cultural-type intellectual, she doesn't truly fit in any place, and she 'can't go home again'; but her marginality and her openness give her a privileged perspective from which to view the strange workings of class and sexual politics in America." -- Bella Brodski, Sarah Lawrence College "Beyond the tracks, Niemann paints incandescent American landscapes. Inside the trains, and inside the 'rails,' beds, and bars, Niemann paints innerscapes of anguish, exhaustion, and razor-edged humor from which no light escapes. No light except the author's brilliance." -- Helene Moglen, University of California, Santa Cruz
Synopsis
Linda Niemann's life felt like a runaway boxcar - drugs, drink and failed relationships. So she jumped off, into the world of the railways, into a contemporary women's adventure of the American West. A boomer is a manual worker on a train, usually a brakeman, who travels to train-yards that are booming in order to find work. This is an account of one woman's experience of five years of booming - of coping with the physical demands, the emotional isolation and the huge added pressure of being a woman in a fiercely male world. What emerges is a complex portrait, of the author's own strugglees, both inner and outer, and those of the men around her, and of an industry and way of life fast disappearing.
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- PublisherRivers Oram Press/Pandora List
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0044408838
- ISBN 13 9780044408833
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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(London), Pandora, (1993). Reprint. Wrappers, pp., 1993
ISBN 10: 0044408838
ISBN 13: 9780044408833
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