num_pages: 280
description: Using two cross-country trips on Amtrak as her narrative vehicles, British writer Jenny Diski connects the humming rails, taking her into the heart of America with the track-like scars leading back to her own past. As in the highly acclaimed Skating to Antarctica, Diski has created a seamless and seemingly effortless amalgam of reflections and revelation in a unique combination of travelogue and memoir.
language: English
title: Stranger on a Train
titlecomplete: Stranger on a Train
genres: Essays, American, Biography, Travel, Literature, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Research, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 771
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Thomas Cook Travel Book Award
publisher: Virago Press