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A Hoosier Holiday
Contributor(s): Dreiser, Theodore (Author)

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ISBN: 0253211212     ISBN-13: 9780253211217
Publisher: Indiana University Press
OUR PRICE: $28.50  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 1998
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Annotation: By 1914, Theodore Dreiser was a successful writer with an international reputation, as well as a fixture on the New York literary scene. He had not been back to Indiana, his home state, in over twenty years when he was approached by his friend Franklin Booth, a respected and very successful artist, to make the trip together by automobile. The result is a narrative brimming with detail and the first modern work of American road literature, capturing the euphoric freedom to be found behind the wheel of a car.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 96051687
Age Level: 22-UP
Grade Level: 17-UP
Physical Information: 1.07" H x 6.08" W x 9.06" L (1.64 lbs) 560 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Heartland
- Cultural Region - Midwest
- Geographic Orientation - Indiana
Features: Illustrated
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

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.

 
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