Popular travel writer Tom Miller brings his keen, original, and humorous eye to bear on the area he's lived in for 30 years - the American Southwest and adjoining northern Mexico. Jack Ruby's Kitchen Sink: Travels Through America's Southwest is a first person guided tour of the American Southwest and adjoining northern Mexico. It reflects on the remarkable Southwestern and Mexican land and the extraordinary and unusual people who criss-cross its bleached deserts, cracked pavements, and 18-hole golf courses. The book's ...
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Popular travel writer Tom Miller brings his keen, original, and humorous eye to bear on the area he's lived in for 30 years - the American Southwest and adjoining northern Mexico. Jack Ruby's Kitchen Sink: Travels Through America's Southwest is a first person guided tour of the American Southwest and adjoining northern Mexico. It reflects on the remarkable Southwestern and Mexican land and the extraordinary and unusual people who criss-cross its bleached deserts, cracked pavements, and 18-hole golf courses. The book's posture is optimistic and enthusiastic, contemplative and vigilant. Miller's tone stays amiable, immediate, and descriptive throughout, growing angry now and then and getting involved when necessary. The reader will hear unfamiliar accents and inviting music (including the history of "La Bamba" and see landscapes both real and metaphoric with mesquite trees to pause beneath and back alleys to wander down. The book's ultimate message is that the tension between the land and the people who walk upon it benefits the latter to the detriment of the former.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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.
