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Poe Ballantine, nomad and writer, has travelled America for three decades. A man more used to dropping out than clocking in, he has cooked in eighteen restaurants, worked over seventy menial jobs and done every drug in the book, subsisting for most of his adult life on four-hundred dollars a month. In Things I Like About America, Ballantine chronicles the down and outs, the little people and the nowhere towns he encountered along the way. These are surprising, beautifully written true stories that vibrate with longing and hope. Some will make you laugh out loud, others will break your heart. Together, they paint an unforgettable portrait of life on the bottom rung of modern America.
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"Crushed testicles, torn scrotums, a waiter who is set on fire 'to prove it could be done, ' "The Selman-Troytt Papers" is positively Beckettian. . . . Clever, eccentric--a bit like Flann O'Brien on a nasty day--and focussed on the lower half of the body."--"The Independent"
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'Spiked with wry and necessary humour ... Risky, self-effacing and compelling, THINGS I LIKE ABOUT AMERICA is a rare blend of personal narrative, social commentary, melancholy and hope' GUARDIAN * 'Characters that leap from the page like a pop-up book... Ballantine has a style all of his own' EVENING HERALD * 'A born raconteur who serves America's underbelly sunny side up' THE TIMES * 'Calmer than Bukowski, less portentous than Kerouac, more hopeful than West' SAN DIEGO TRIBUNE * 'Warm-hearted, witty and tender ... Pinballing around the country, Ballantine describes a patchwork quilt of small town Americana, along the way meeting a rich cast of drunks, headcases and deadbeats... I devoured THINGS I LIKE ABOUT AMERICA in one sitting' GUARDIAN ONLINE * 'Ballantine has honed his prose so that it is as fresh as a downpour in Decora... He humanises the mythic underbelly of the American nowhere' THE TIMES * 'Poe Ballantine finds humour in situations that most would find unbearable and flourishes like a modern-day Kerouac ... A book to cherish and pass on to friends' MARK POIRIER * ---
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- PublisherOld Street Publishing
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1906964068
- ISBN 13 9781906964061
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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