She Drove Without Stopping

by Jaimy Gordon

Book Overview

Perhaps the ultimate woman's road novel, She Drove Without Stopping presents young Jane Turner's cross-country journey toward self-possession. As she refuses to turn back from a terrain we all know is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945575246
• ISBN13: 9780945575245
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

A non-stop, lyrical work of well crafted prose.

Twenty-year-old Jane Turner sets off on a cross-country adventure in She Drove Without Stopping. By the end of her reckless, risky year on the road she's been in love, in danger, in jail, and, finally, in control of her own life again. In She Drove Without Stopping, author Jaimy Gordon provides a memorable protagonist in a whirling, non-stop, lyrical novel where a well-crafted prose is in perfect service to a deeply engaging, unique, and entertaining story. Highly recommended.