The glimpse traveler [electronic resource] / Marianne Boruch.
When she joins a pair of hitchhikers on a trip to California, a young Midwestern woman embarks on a journey about memory and knowledge, beauty and realization. This true story, set in 1971, recounts a fateful, nine-day trip into the American counterculture that begins on a whim and quickly becomes a...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington, Ind. :
Indiana University Press,
©2011.
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| Series: | Break away books.
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| Summary: | When she joins a pair of hitchhikers on a trip to California, a young Midwestern woman embarks on a journey about memory and knowledge, beauty and realization. This true story, set in 1971, recounts a fateful, nine-day trip into the American counterculture that begins on a whim and quickly becomes a mission to unravel a tragic mystery. The narrator's path leads her to Berkeley, San Francisco, Mill Valley, Big Sur, and finally to an abandoned resort motel, now become a down-on-its-luck commune in the desert of southern Colorado. Neither a memoir about private misery, nor a shocking expos ̌of life in a turbulent era, The Glimpse Traveler describes with wry humor and deep feeling what it was like to witness a peculiar and impossibly rich time. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (227 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-227). |
| ISBN: | 9780253005557 0253005558 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |