1989
First Published
3.45
Average Rating
252
Number of Pages
Is it possible, by travelling to a new world, to become a new person? Jonathan Raban crossed the Atlantic by ship and, like the immigrants before him, made for America in search of a new language, a new name, a new identity. Plus: Rian Malan, Roger Garfitt, Josef Skvorecky, Paul Theroux, Patricia Highsmith, Tim O’Brien, and Patrick McGrath’s ‘A Boy’s Broadmoor’.
Avg Rating
3.45
Number of Ratings
22
5 STARS
14%
4 STARS
32%
3 STARS
41%
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Author
Bill Buford
Author · 34 books
Bill Buford is an American author and journalist. Buford is the author of the books: Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany.
