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Riding Toward Everywhere by William T. Vollmann

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Apr 25, 10

bookshelves: american-studies, 2010, culturalhistory

An odd little book about riding the rails. There's the literary aspect (Hemingway, Kerouac, Chinese poetry, Wolfe) and the American notion of expanse, but there's also the reality of what hobos live through and why. There's an odd disconect in the book between the events, the people and the writing.

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