Hunting Mister Heartbreak (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jonathan Raban
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Travel
- Time of Work: The late 1980’s
- Setting: New York City; Guntersville, Alabama; Seattle, Washington; Key West, Florida
- Principal Characters: Jonathan Raban
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Traveling or travelers, Voyages, Twentieth century, Rural or country life, 1980’s, City life, Identity
- Locales: New York, NY, Alabama, Seattle, WA, Key West, FL
Jonathan Raban is an Englishman with a fascination and sympathy for the American spirit as it exists in both fantasy and reality. At the beginning of the 1980’s, in Old Glory (1981), he wrote of his experiences piloting a boat down the Mississippi River, tracing the journey of the archetypal American free spirit Huckleberry Finn. Starting in Minneapolis, Raban made his way down the continent to Louisiana, stopping along the shore to observe and record the characters he encountered. Old Glory captured America at the depressing end of the Carter tenure and the beginning of...
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