A Hoosier Holiday

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American, Nonfiction, Travel
Cover of the book A Hoosier Holiday by Theodore Dreiser, Indiana University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Theodore Dreiser ISBN: 9780253028082
Publisher: Indiana University Press Publication: April 22, 1997
Imprint: Indiana University Press Language: English
Author: Theodore Dreiser
ISBN: 9780253028082
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication: April 22, 1997
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Language: English

"Though far from the author’s usual musings, this is actually a forerunner to the American road novel and very well could have been one of the inspirations for Jack Kerouac... this is a fine addition to public and academic libraries." —Library Journal

"Theodore Dreiser, road warrior... Dreiser’s account of his homecoming will touch a familiar and responsive chord in anyone who has undertaken one.... In that, as in so much else in this book, as in the great body of all his work, Dreiser in his earnest, heartfelt, clumsy way speaks to the universal experience." —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World

"Because [the book] provides a portrait of the artist as a young man and describes the nation as a mosaic of individual cultures, Dreiser’s journey offers several different lessons. Part travelogue, part autobiography, part collection of essays, A Hoosier Holiday lays out the landscape of a nation that ceased to exist once the highway unfurled across the map." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

By 1914, Theodore Dreiser was a successful writer living in New York. He had not been back to his home state in over 20 years. When his friend Franklin Booth approached him with the idea of driving from New York to Indiana, Dreiser’s response to Booth was immediate: "All my life I’ve been thinking of making a return trip to Indiana and writing a book about it." Along the route, Dreiser recorded his impressions of the people and land in words while his traveling companion sketched some of these scenes. In this reflective tale, Dreiser and Booth cross four states to arrive at Indiana and the sites and memories of Dreiser’s early life in Terre Haute, Sullivan, Evansville, Warsaw, and his one year at Indiana University.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

"Though far from the author’s usual musings, this is actually a forerunner to the American road novel and very well could have been one of the inspirations for Jack Kerouac... this is a fine addition to public and academic libraries." —Library Journal

"Theodore Dreiser, road warrior... Dreiser’s account of his homecoming will touch a familiar and responsive chord in anyone who has undertaken one.... In that, as in so much else in this book, as in the great body of all his work, Dreiser in his earnest, heartfelt, clumsy way speaks to the universal experience." —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World

"Because [the book] provides a portrait of the artist as a young man and describes the nation as a mosaic of individual cultures, Dreiser’s journey offers several different lessons. Part travelogue, part autobiography, part collection of essays, A Hoosier Holiday lays out the landscape of a nation that ceased to exist once the highway unfurled across the map." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

By 1914, Theodore Dreiser was a successful writer living in New York. He had not been back to his home state in over 20 years. When his friend Franklin Booth approached him with the idea of driving from New York to Indiana, Dreiser’s response to Booth was immediate: "All my life I’ve been thinking of making a return trip to Indiana and writing a book about it." Along the route, Dreiser recorded his impressions of the people and land in words while his traveling companion sketched some of these scenes. In this reflective tale, Dreiser and Booth cross four states to arrive at Indiana and the sites and memories of Dreiser’s early life in Terre Haute, Sullivan, Evansville, Warsaw, and his one year at Indiana University.

More books from Indiana University Press

Cover of the book The Big Move by Theodore Dreiser
Cover of the book American Religious Liberalism by Theodore Dreiser
Cover of the book Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine by Theodore Dreiser
Cover of the book Quick Hits for Adjunct Faculty and Lecturers by Theodore Dreiser
Cover of the book The White River Badlands by Theodore Dreiser
Cover of the book Connected Science by Theodore Dreiser
Cover of the book Ecologies of Faith in New York City by Theodore Dreiser
Cover of the book Seasoned Socialism by Theodore Dreiser
Cover of the book Fierce Pretty Things by Theodore Dreiser
Cover of the book Socialist Senses by Theodore Dreiser
Cover of the book Riley Child-Rhymes with Hoosier Pictures by Theodore Dreiser
Cover of the book Ifá Divination, Knowledge, Power, and Performance by Theodore Dreiser
Cover of the book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by Theodore Dreiser
Cover of the book Indiana Across the Land by Theodore Dreiser
Cover of the book Performing Folklore by Theodore Dreiser
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy