| Dick Estell The Radio Reader Public Radio's Reading Program |
| Airs August 11 - September 29, 2009 |
For the first time since Blue Highways, Heat-Moon returns to the back roads in
search of what he calls “Quoz”---things strange, incongruous, or peculiar.
Heat-Moon and his wife “Q” travel across New Mexican deserts, into a Florida
swamp, on to the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and down an abandoned
railroad in Idaho into a western café serving pickle pie.
The highlights of these journeys are the people the author meets along the way
and their stories, like the man who tried to fund a school for disadvantaged
children by providing lonely widows with special massages.
Heat-Moon’s prose over the last few decades is still quick-witted with equal parts
humor and wisdom.
search of what he calls “Quoz”---things strange, incongruous, or peculiar.
Heat-Moon and his wife “Q” travel across New Mexican deserts, into a Florida
swamp, on to the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and down an abandoned
railroad in Idaho into a western café serving pickle pie.
The highlights of these journeys are the people the author meets along the way
and their stories, like the man who tried to fund a school for disadvantaged
children by providing lonely widows with special massages.
Heat-Moon’s prose over the last few decades is still quick-witted with equal parts
humor and wisdom.
| (non-fiction) |
| Roads to Quoz by William Least Heat-Moon Little Brown & Co., NY 2008 |
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