Beschrijving

Deep South of America is a place of contradictions. There is the warm, open spirit of the soul food cafes, found in every town, no matter how small. There is the ruined grandeur of numberless ghostly towns, long abandoned by the industries that built them. This book is about this place.

Publisher’s description. For the first time, renowned travel writer Paul Theroux turns his penetrating gaze homeward, exploring the extraordinary places and peoples of the American Deep South. From soul food and wide open roads to endemic poverty and simmering racial tension, he journeys to the heart of a vivid and mesmerising world.

His ability to sum up a people or a city in a few lines is undiminished

Theroux’s work remains the standard by which other travel writing must be judged

The world’s most perceptive travel writer

[Theroux] has the power to transport us and get under the skin of a place… the stories in Deep Southmake for a compelling listen

This engrossingbook reminds us that despite the poverty, maybe because of it, everyone has a story to telland it’s the writer’s job to bear such testimony

Paul Theroux has written many works of fiction and travel writing, including the modern classics The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, My Secret Historyand The Mosquito Coast. He won the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing 2020. Paul Theroux divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian islands.