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The great northern express : a writer's journey home / Howard Frank Mosher.

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  • ISBN: 9780307450692
  • Physical Description: 246 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Crown, c2012.

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Documents the author's road trip across twenty-first-century America, where he shared personal encounters with homeless people, country performers, and readers and writers from all walks of life.
Subject: Mosher, Howard Frank.
Novelists, American > 21st century > Biography.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.

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The Great Northern Express : A Writer's Journey Home
The Great Northern Express : A Writer's Journey Home
by Mosher, Howard Frank
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The Great Northern Express : A Writer's Journey Home


From bestselling, nationally celebrated author Howard Frank Mosher, a wildly funny and deeply personal account of his three-month, 20,000-mile sojourn to discover what he loved enough to live for.   Several months before novelist Howard Frank Mosher turned sixty-five, he learned that he had prostate cancer. Following forty-six intensive radiation treatments, Mosher set out alone in his twenty-year-old Chevy Celebrity on a monumental road trip and book tour across twenty-first-century America. From a chance meeting with an angry moose in northern New England to late-night walks on the wildest sides of America's largest cities, The Great Northern Express chronicles Mosher's escapades with an astonishing array of erudite bibliophiles, homeless hitchhikers, country crooners and strippers, and aspiring writers of all circumstances.      Full of high and low comedy and rollicking adventures, this is part travel memoir, part autobiography, and pure, anarchic fun. From coast to coast and border to border, this unforgettable adventure of a top-notch American writer demonstrates that, sometimes, in order to know who we truly are, we must turn the wheel towards home.

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