Roads: Driving America's Great Highways
| Author | Larry McMurtry |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | memoir |
Publication date | 2000 |
| Publication place | USA |
| Preceded by | Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond |
| Followed by | Paradise |
Roads: Driving America's Great Highways is a 2000 non-fiction book by Larry McMurtry about driving around the USA. The book was a part memoir. According to The New York Times "the book is not an aid to travel but an occasion for fleeting, from-the-hip commentary on anything along the way that comes to his eye or mind."[1]
The Austin Chronicle wrote "this is not really a book about taking trips along specific roads but another Proustian journey along the trails in Texas' most famous novelist's varied past as he traces the places that have been central to his life and work" and it "should be read as a companion piece to McMurtry's last memoir, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen."[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Life in the Fast Lane". New York Times. 16 July 2000. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
- ^ "Two for the Road". Austin Chronicle. 4 August 2000. Retrieved 3 August 2024.