Full name: Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions

Author: Jenny Diski Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Memoirs, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781860499951 9780312422622 1860499953 0312422628

Using two cross-country trips on Amtrak as her narrative vehicles, British writer Jenny Diski connects the humming rails, taking her into the heart of America with the track-like scars leading back to her own past. As in the highly acclaimed Skating to Antarctica, Diski has created a seamless and seemingly effortless amalgam of reflections and revelation in a unique combination of travelogue and memoir. Similar books: Roads to Quoz by William Least Heat-Moon Educating Alice by Alice Steinbach Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman Avoiding Prison and Other Noble Vacation Goals by Wendy Dale Kite Strings of the Southern Cross by Laurie Gough Around the World in 50 Years by Albert Podell On the Road with Charles Kuralt by Charles Kuralt Hunting Mister Heartbreak by Jonathan Raban Nothing to Declare by Mary Morris The World, the World by Norman Lewis Deep South by Paul Theroux Turn Left At The Trojan Horse by Brad Herzog New Roadside America by Doug Kirby Narrow Dog to Indian River by Terry Darlington A Year in the World by Frances Mayes Little Princes by Conor Grennan Hiking Through by Paul Stutzman Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff Dispatches from Pluto by Richard Grant