No Particular Place to Go - Softcover

Williams, Hugo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571295193 ISBN 13: 9780571295197

Publisher: Faber, 2012

Synopsis

'A hilarious book of bad times, bedtimes and benders. It is a kind of cool parody of On the Road.' New Statesman

No Particular Place to Go (first published in 1981) relates Hugo Williams's journey across the USA on a three-month poetry-reading tour wherein he also hoped to discover some of the America he had imagined for so long on the strength of its all-consuming popular culture.

'No Particular Place to Go isn't a book that you'd take on a visitor's itinerary of the States . . . But the journey it describes is a potent one . . . It offered a poet's eye on modern culture, a cool, sideways perspective on its consumers and an enviable traveller's voice - not just unafraid of meeting the locals but positively keen to jump in and grab whatever was on offer.' John Walsh, Independent

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Review:

'An American journey few would envy and some might openly disbelieve' JULIAN BARNES, Sunday Times 'Hilarious vignettes' BLAKE MORRISON Times Literary Supplement 'Simply very funny' TIME OUT 'A hilarious book of bedtimes, bad times and benders' NEW STATESMAN

About the Author:

Hugo Williams was born in 1942 and grew up in Sussex. He worked on the London Magazine from 1961 to 1970, since when he has earned his living as a journalist and travel writer. Billy's Rain won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1999. His Collected Poems was published by Faber in 2002 and his last collection, I Knew the Bride, was published in 2014 and shortlisted for the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes. In 2004 he received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0571295193
• ISBN 13: 9780571295197
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190