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Lost in America

2011-08-23 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2011-08-23
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 358/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Lost in America by : Colby Buzzell

Download or read book Lost in America written by Colby Buzzell. This book was released on 2011-08-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colby Buzzell has always been a loner. An autodidact who never went to college, he was dubbed “the voice of a generation” by Robert Kurson for his daring and critically acclaimed book, My War: Killing Time in Iraq. Half a decade later, overwhelmed by the birth of his son and the death of his mother, Buzzell finds himself rudderless. Desperate to escape the constraints of his postwar existence, he packs his things, gets in the car, and, for five months, drives across America—no map, no destination. In his 1965 Mercury Comet, Buzzell travels through the bowels of a country steeped in economic turmoil and political malaise. With a bottle of whisky in one hand and a pack of cigarettes in the other, he takes us on a tour of big-box stores, grimy gas stations, abandoned warehouses, strip clubs, and flophouses. He captures the distinct voices and vivid stories of a forgotten America—Cheyenne, Omaha, Salt Lake City, Des Moines, Detroit, and San Francisco’s Tenderloin. Buzzell unearths America’s bones in all their beauty and starkness. And like the veterans of Hemingway’s Lost Generation, he struggles to reconcile his wanderlust with his responsibilities as a man and a father. Lost in America is a stunning account of the ravages of war on one individual. It also reveals deep truths about a more universal journey: the struggle to find our place in the world—without a map.

Lost in America

2007-12-18 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2007-12-18
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 696/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Lost in America by : Sherwin B. Nuland

Download or read book Lost in America written by Sherwin B. Nuland. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A writer renowned for his insight into the mysteries of the body now gives us a lambent and profoundly moving book about the mysteries of family. At its center lies Sherwin Nuland’s Rembrandtesque portrait of his father, Meyer Nudelman, a Jewish garment worker who came to America in the early years of the last century but remained an eternal outsider. Awkward in speech and movement, broken by the premature deaths of a wife and child, Meyer ruled his youngest son with a regime of rage, dependency, and helpless love that outlasted his death. In evoking their relationship, Nuland also summons up the warmth and claustrophobia of a vanished immigrant New York, a world that impelled its children toward success yet made them feel like traitors for leaving it behind. Full of feeling and unwavering observation, Lost in America deserves a place alongside such classics as Patrimony and Call It Sleep.

Lost in America

1994 Poetry
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Release : 1994
Genre : Poetry
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Book Synopsis Lost in America by : David Connolly

Download or read book Lost in America written by David Connolly. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lost in America

2001 Religion
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Release : 2001
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 577/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Lost in America by : Thomas T. Clegg

Download or read book Lost in America written by Thomas T. Clegg. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost in America helps inspire Christians to think and behave as missionaries here in North America. It help encourage and challenge church members to change the way they think of evangelism and begin reaching out to people in their communities. Includes practical advice and steps for churches to take towards lasting change.

Lost in America

2008-03-28 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2008-03-28
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 490/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Lost in America by : Pe Ph D Saroj K Joshi

Download or read book Lost in America written by Pe Ph D Saroj K Joshi. This book was released on 2008-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lost in America" is a story of Kabin, a young guy, who comes to America with full of dreams and hopes for the future. Kabin struggles a lot to adjust to the American system, and goes through the ordeals of a first generation immigrant. After seventeen years, he finds himself trapped in America within his intricate personal and family life. He shows his strong desire to return back to his homeland, shows frustrations that he could not contribute anything to his country and starts doubting that his patriotism was actually an illusion. On the other aspect, Kabin acquires a strong personality, positive attitude, self confidence and strength to face the challenges. This book tries to bring the reader closer to understanding the process of transformation bringing the issue of changing from what the person was before - to a new realized person in a new culture. This process is identified as to how little time an immigrant gets to experience the opportunity of change - rather once his attention is able to be a focus of his personal "intention" then anything is possible. The story reflects upon the creative process that comes with self mastery and in this the writer assures himself a place in the history books as one person who, by personal diligence achieves that which many of us dream about - a transformed self.

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