Imagined Places: Journeys Into Literary America

by Michael Pearson

Book Overview

Michael Pearson here writes about his travels to American places of literary import, including: William Faulkner's Mississippi; Ernest Hemingway's Key West; John Steinbeck's California; Mark Twain's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878055266
• ISBN13: 9780878055265
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

an armchair trip

In this day and age when travel seems daunting, I really enjoyed this journey into the lives of famous writers and into America itself. This book was a find.

If you like great authors, read this book....

This book was a real find for me. I found it in a little bookstore in Pennsylvania. I was attracted by the cover design, a road curving into the colorful distance. The book led me to the right places: into the lives of Frost, Twain, Steinbeck, Hemingway, O'Connor, and Faulkner and into encounters with some unexpected people as well. This book is worth the trip for sure.

Imagined for some...Real for me

This great book bought me back in time...1976 the Bicenntial, when a friend and myself travled across country and visited these places that Mr.Pearson wrote about. I wish more authors could make they're words come alive the way Mr.Pearson has, Although i wish i had a little lobster with that "sunshine". All & all i throughly enjoyed it and probably will pass this on to my children...Thank you for such wonderfull reading Mr.Pearson..My hats off to you..Bravo!!

a unique piece of travel writing and nonfiction

Imagined Places is a sort of "Blue Highways" on a literary subject. It traces the writer's love affair with books and how they drew him into the world around him, to places like hannibal, Missouri, and Key West, Florida. It is a fascinating travel account and an "imaginative" story in its own right.

a great book

Imagined places is a wonderful piece of travel adventure. It is about literature and place, connecting the two in ways that are exciting and unique.