Summary
"Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the first time, in his tenth travel book, Theroux explores a piece of America--the Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable m... Full description
- Fall : "You gotta be going there to get there"
- Interlude : the taboo word
- Winter : "Ones born today don't know how it was"
- Interlude : the paradoxes of Faulkner
- Spring : redbud in bloom
- Interlude : the fantastications of Southern fiction
- Summer : the odor of sun-heated roads.