Sunday, February 18, 2007

The call of the weird: travels in American subcultures

Author: Theroux, Louis

Title: The call of the weird: travels in American subcultures

Published: Cambridge: Da Capo Press, 2007, 2005

Description: xiv, 266 p. :ill. ; 24 cm.

Note: Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2005

Subject(s):
  • Subculture -- United States
  • Eccentrics and eccentricities -- United States -- Biography
  • National characteristics, American
  • United States -- Description and travel
  • United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971-
  • United States -- Biography
  • United States -- Civilization -- 1970-
  • Theroux, Louis -- Travel -- United States

Review(s):

  • Hughes-Hallett, Lucy. "A bemused and amused bystander.(The Call of the Weird: Travels in America Subcultures)" Spectator 299.9246 (Oct 22, 2005): 46
  • "The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures." Kirkus Reviews 74.22 (Nov 15, 2006): 1168

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