num_pages: 288
description: From his bid to become Eudora Welty's lawn boy to the time George Plimpton offered to punch him in the nose lineage has always been important to Rick Bass. Now at a turning point--in his midfifties with his long marriage dissolved and his grown daughters out of the house--Bass strikes out on a journey of thanksgiving. His aim: to make a memorable meal for each of his mentors to express his gratitude for the way they have shaped not only his writing but his life. The result an odyssey to some of America's most iconic writers is also a record of self-transformation as Bass seeks to recapture the fire that drove him as a young man. Along the way we join in escapades involving smuggled contraband an exploding grill a trail of blood through Heathrow airport an episode of dog-watching with Amy Hempel in Central Park and a near run-in with plague-ridden prairie dogs on the way to see Lorrie Moore as well as heartwarming and bittersweet final meals with the late Peter Matthiessen John Berger and Denis Johnson.
language: English
title: The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes
publisher: Little, Brown and Company