Blue Highways (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: William Lewis Trogdon
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Travel writing
- Principal Characters: William Least Heat-Moon, Brother Patrick, Thurmond and “Miss Ginny ”Watts, Porfirio Sanchez, Kendrick Fritz, Arthur O. Bakke
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Traveling or travelers, Voyages, Roads, streets, or highways, Manners or customs, Social life, Native Americans or American Indians, Cities or towns
Form and Content
One day in the winter of 1978, William Trogdon learned that his part-time job teaching English at Stevens College in Columbia, Missouri, was to end because of declining enrollment. The same day after speaking on the phone with his wife, from whom he had been separated for nine months, he sensed that the chances of a reconciliation with her were unlikely. Lying awake that night, the author recounts, the idea came to him of making a circuit of the back roads of the United States, as much to preserve his dignity as to survey the country’s land and people....
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