Boomer Railroad Memoirs (Signed Copy)

Niemann, Linda; Linda Niemann

ISBN 10: 0520068440 / ISBN 13: 9780520068445

Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1990

About this Item

Blue-boards hardback with a dust jacket now protected in a new archival-quality, removable Mylar plastic cover. Signed on the front free page with absolutely no further inscription, by the author. This copy has a "read-only-once" look & feel. Stored in sealed plastic protection and mailed (bubble-wrapped) in a sturdy Jiffy Rigi Bag envelope. We ship daily from Roswell, Ga. Serving satisfied customers since 1999. 252-stated pages. Seller Inventory # 22015745

Bibliographic Details

Title: Boomer Railroad Memoirs (Signed Copy)

Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

Publication Date: 1990

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: Later Printing

About this title

Synopsis:

The memoirs of Amtrack brakeman/conductor, Linda Niemann.

Review:

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

"Boomer is a fascinating mix of fact, history, self-confession, self-accusation, and self-forgiveness a diary of both emotional relationships and travel." Pasatiempo"

"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"

"Niemann has a taut, lyrically restrained but vividly descriptive style, with an observational vigilance befitting a brakeman's mindset, and her narrative clips along like a boxcar rolling through the yard." Bloom Magazine, June/July 2011"

"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"