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Author: Linda G. Niemann ,
Leslie Marmon Silko
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.431kg
ISBN: 9780253222831
ISBN 10: 0253222834
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 07 April 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""Ma[kes] the railroad experience come alive with all its grit, danger, romance, and general outrageousness... Possibly the finest book I've ever read about the actual experience of working on the railroad."" -- Kevin Keefe, Trains Magazine ""A candid, unsentimental, and un-sensationalized account of a woman's exploration into the diversity of her complex nature -- sexual, intellectual, spiritual."" -- Martha Banta, University of California, Los Angeles ""As a bisexual, counter-cultural-type intellectual, she doesn't truly fit in any place, and she 'can't go home again'; but her marginality and her openness give her a privileged perspective from which to view the strange workings of class and sexual politics in America."" -- Bella Brodski, Sarah Lawrence College ""Beyond the tracks, Niemann paints incandescent American landscapes. Inside the trains, and inside the 'rails,' beds, and bars, Niemann paints innerscapes of anguish, exhaustion, and razor-edged humor from which no light escapes. No light except the author's brilliance."" -- Helene Moglen, University of California, Santa Cruz"
Ma[kes] the railroad experience come alive with all its grit, danger, romance, and general outrageousness... Possibly the finest book I've ever read about the actual experience of working on the railroad. -- Kevin Keefe, Trains Magazine A candid, unsentimental, and un-sensationalized account of a woman's exploration into the diversity of her complex nature -- sexual, intellectual, spiritual. -- Martha Banta, University of California, Los Angeles As a bisexual, counter-cultural-type intellectual, she doesn't truly fit in any place, and she 'can't go home again'; but her marginality and her openness give her a privileged perspective from which to view the strange workings of class and sexual politics in America. -- Bella Brodski, Sarah Lawrence College Beyond the tracks, Niemann paints incandescent American landscapes. Inside the trains, and inside the 'rails,' beds, and bars, Niemann paints innerscapes of anguish, exhaustion, and razor-edged humor from which no light escapes. No light except the author's brilliance. -- Helene Moglen, University of California, Santa Cruz
Author Information
Linda Grant Niemann teaches creative nonfiction at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia. She is author of Railroad Noir: The American West at the End of the Twentieth Century (IUP, 2010).
