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Divine magnetic lands : a journey in America

TRAVEL WRITING. In 1973, aged twenty-two, Timothy O'Grady left America for Europe and lived there for the next thirty years. 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. 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. Using history, memoir, state-of-the-nation analysis and a novelist's skill at evoking places and people, "Divine Magnetic Lands" presents a picture of America as it evolved and how it is at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

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