Riding Toward Everywhere Book Reviews
Riding Toward Everywhere by William T. Vollmann Book Summary
Vollmann is a relentlessly curious, endlessly sensitive, and unequivocally adventurous examiner of human existence. He has investigated the causes and symptoms of humanity's obsession with violence (Rising Up and Rising Down), taken a personal look into the hearts and minds of the world's poorest inhabitants (Poor People), and now turns his attentions to America itself, to our romanticizing of "freedom" and the ways in which we restrict the very freedoms we profess to admire.
For Riding Toward Everywhere, Vollmann himself takes to the rails. His main accomplice is Steve, a captivating fellow trainhopper who expertly accompanies him through the secretive waters of this particular way of life. Vollmann describes the thrill and terror of lying in a trainyard in the dark, avoiding the flickering flashlights of the railroad bulls; the shockingly, gorgeously wild scenery of the American West as seen from a grainer platform; the complicated considerations involved in trying to hop on and off a moving train. It's a dangerous, thrilling, evocative examination of this underground lifestyle, and it is, without a doubt, one of Vollmann's most hauntingly beautiful narratives.
Questioning anything and everything, subjecting both our national romance and our skepticism about hobo life to his finely tuned, analytical eye and the reality of what he actually sees, Vollmann carries on in the tradition of Huckleberry Finn, providing a moving portrait of this strikingly modern vision of the American dream.
Book Name | Riding Toward Everywhere |
Genre | Travel in Latin America |
Author | William T. Vollmann |
Published | 13 October 2009, Tuesday |
Language | English |
E-Book Size | 3.33 MB |
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Summary of Riding Toward Everywhere by William T. Vollmann
The Riding Toward Everywhere book written by William T. Vollmann was published on 13 October 2009, Tuesday in the Travel in Latin America category. A total of 46 readers of the book gave the book 0 points out of 5.
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