Roads to Quoz
Subtitle: an American mosey
By: William Least Heat-Moon.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 581
ISBN-13: 9780316110259
Subjects: Heat Moon, William Least -- Travel -- United States -- Anecdotes; United States -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes.
Description: Heat-Moon writes travel books like no one else. Quirky, discursive, endlessly curious, he embarks on American journeys off the beaten path. Sticking to the small places via the small roads, he uncovers a nation deep in character, story, and charm. "Quoz" refers to anything strange, incongruous, or peculiar. Quoz can be history and heredity; stories, retold or invented; strange characters with poignant dreams. It's places with names like Sublimity City, Kentucky, and Dull Center, Wyoming; unresolved crimes, violent and rippling; schemers and inventors and those missing a tooth or two; and the mysterious Quapaw Ghost Light of Oklahoma. For the first time since his 1982 Blue Highways, Heat-Moon is back on the backroads with a lyrical, funny, and magisterially told chronicle of American passage, of maps of the heart and mind.--From publisher description.