Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World (Häftad)
avSarah Vowell
ISBN: 9780743205405 - UTGIVEN: 200104Take the Cannoli is a moving and wickedly funny collection of personal stories stretching across the immense landscape of the American scene. Vowell tackles subjects such as identity, politics, religion, art, and history with a biting humor. She searches the streets of Hoboken for traces of the town[...]
Assassination Vacation (Häftad)
avSarah Vowell
ISBN: 9780743260046 - UTGIVEN: 2006-04Transporting us from Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to Key West, Vowell has crafted a narrative that is much more than a historical travelogue - it is the disturbing and mesmerising story of how American death has been manipulated by popular culture, including film, literature, and - the author's fav[...]
Unfamiliar Fishes (Häftad)
avSarah Vowell
ISBN: 9781594485640 - UTGIVEN: 201203From Puritans to heathens-Sarah Vowell takes on Hawaii in this "New York Times" bestseller. Of all the countries the United States invaded or colonized in 1898, Sarah Vowell considers the story of the Americanization of Hawaii to be the most intriguing. From the arrival of the New England missionari[...]
