Driving Home An American Scrapbook
Raban, Jonathan

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For over thirty years Jonathan Raban has written about people and places in transition or on the margins, of journeys undertaken and destinations never quite reached; of isolation and alienation, but also of what it means to belong, to feel rooted.

Driving Home, a collection of pieces spanning two decades, charts its course through American history and recent world events. Raban writes with an outsider's eye for the public and the personal, about political, social, and cultural affairs, and about literature, his tone intimate but never nostalgic, and always fresh. Variously frank, witty, and provocative, Driving Home is part essay collection, part diary - and wholly engrossing.

Author Information

Jonathan Raban is the author of over ten books, both fiction and non-fiction, including Passage to Juneau and, most recently, Surveillance. His awards include the National Book Critics Circle and the Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Awards. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Guardian, Independent, New York Review of Books, Granta, Harpers and many other magazines. In 1990 Raban, a British citizen, moved from London to Seattle, where he now lives with his daughter.