Splendor in the Short Grass: The Grover Lewis Reader

by Grover Lewis

Book Overview

Honorable Mention, Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Nonfiction, 2006

Grover Lewis was one of the defining voices of the New Journalism of the 1960s and 1970s. His wry, acutely observed, fluently written essays for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice set a standard for other writers of the time, including Hunter S. Thompson, Joe Eszterhas, Timothy Ferris, Chet Flippo, and Tim Cahill, who said of Lewis, "He was the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292722303
• ISBN13: 9780292722309
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"