Divine Magnetic Lands

Zusatztext

<p>In 1973, aged twenty-two, Timothy O'Grady left America. For the next thirty years he lived in and wrote about Europe. As he did, the American counter-culture crashed, Ronald Reagan came and went, wars were declared and the country was attacked by air. Much of the world began to look at America in a new way, wondering what had happened to it and where it was going. Among them was Timothy O'Grady, and he decided to go back and investigate.</p><p>He went out onto the American road, travelling over fifteen thousand miles through thirty-five states. He met academics, the homeless, war veterans, political activists, New Orleans rappers, billionaires, novelists and a Ku Klux Klansman. In every bar he stopped in, it seemed, there was a story of American life to be heard.</p>

Autorenportrait

Timothy O'Grady was born in the USA and has lived in Ireland, London and Spain. He is the author (with Kenneth Griffith) of<i>Curious Journey: An Oral History of Ireland's Unfinished Revolution</i>, and the novels<i>Motherland</i>, which won the David Higham award for the best first novel in 1989, and<i>I Could Read the Sky</i>, which won the Encore award for best second novel of 1997. His book<i>On Golf</i>was published by Yellow Jersey to superb reviews in 2003.

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