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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.3
EAN: 9780316110259
ISBN: 0316110256
Label: Little, Brown and Company
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 592
Publication Date: October 29, 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Sales Rank: 4636
Studio: Little, Brown and Company
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About a quarter century ago, a previously unknown writer named William Least Heat-Moon wrote a book called Blue Highways. Acclaimed as a classic, it was a travel book like no other. Quirky, discursive, endlessly curious, Heat-Moon had embarked on an American journey off the beaten path. Sticking to the small places via the small roads--those colored blue on maps--he uncovered a nation deep in character, story, and charm.
Now, for the first time since Blue Highways, Heat-Moon is back on the backroads. ROADS TO QUOZ is his lyrical, funny, and touching account of a series of American journeys into small-town America.
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Rating:  - Finally finished Quoz
Heat-Moon is as talented as ever interviewing ordinary people who turn out to be extraordinary under his friendly scalpel. But his obsession with his word "Quoz" is neverending and tiresome. Great book if every reference to "Quoz" were removed.
Rating: - Roads to Quoz
Moon does it again--- something that appeals to the "down to earth" Americans. Least H. has a collection of stories about real people whose work and toil make this country a success.
Having lived in and traveled much of the area I can vouch for his accurate descriptions of real perople.
Rating:  - An engaging tour of quaint and quirky people and places
"Samuel Johnson said it in five words: `Solitude is dangerous to reason,'" writes the author. "I can think of no greater reason for taking to the American road."
In 1982, William Least Heat-Moon published Blue Highways, a remarkable book whose title refers to highways colored blue on maps. Now, in Roads to Quoz, he ventures again off the beaten path to encounter quirky but charming out-of-the-way places and people.
With an easy banter, Heat-Moon engages those whom he meets ... Read More
Rating: - Quoz
I wasn't sure there was a word for what happens to me when I read Heat-Moon's works. I find treaures in them that seem to be written just for me to find. How can that be?
"PrairyErth" was such a treasure-box; I have read it every year since it was written, each time finding something new. "Roads to Quoz" is also such a book. Its wisdom, depth and humor take you on journeys that are pure joy for the intellect and the imagination.
Heat-Moon's "roads to Quoz" cover a vast area, ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 917.3
EAN: 9780316110259
ISBN: 0316110256
Label: Little, Brown and Company
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 592
Publication Date: October 29, 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Sales Rank: 4636
Studio: Little, Brown and Company