A wonderfully original and vivid portrait captures the soul of the Southwest and demonstrates why Tom Miller is among America's wittiest and most graceful writers. This extraordinary book leads readers deep inside the uniqueness of the region and reflects on the mounting tension between its eroding physical splendor and the diverse inhabitants who crisscross its bleached deserts, cracked pavement--and 18-hole golf courses.
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A wonderfully original and vivid portrait captures the soul of the Southwest and demonstrates why Tom Miller is among America's wittiest and most graceful writers. This extraordinary book leads readers deep inside the uniqueness of the region and reflects on the mounting tension between its eroding physical splendor and the diverse inhabitants who crisscross its bleached deserts, cracked pavement--and 18-hole golf courses.
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Miller makes a specialty of gathering characteristic encounters and experiences in the Southwest. He mines a vein of ore that won't pinch out, at least not in his hands.
SeldomSeen
Dec 10, 2008
Wander the Real Southwest
The book?s subtitle hits it on the head: ?Offbeat Travels through America?s Southwest.? Covering topics from leftist scriptwriters , German ?berlindianers,? miner strikes, Tucson hippies, eco-terrorists, Bisbee bookstores and Jewish cowboys, Mr. Miller knows how to wander. In the Southwest, that?s a fine compliment.
While most books on the southwest focus on the wilderness, the scenery and the landscape?Mr. Miller crawls inside the bars and the bookstores, the small towns and mine shafts. In other words, this book is about the culture of the southwest?not as its sold in kitschy art galleries but as seen through the eyes of a local.
