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If I Was A Highway

Michael Venturas owned only one car his entire life: a green 69 Chevy Malibu. Its wheels have crisscrossed the American landscape over more miles than a round trip to the moon. From Times Square to Terlingua, from Maine to Los Angeles, from Austin to Deadwood, Ventura has chronicled the continent in a kind of switchback journey in image and thought. His essays convey a tactile and intimate relationship with land and peopleand of course the car. Venturas distinctive voice and vision are familiar to readers of the Austin Chronicle (where many of these pieces first appeared), as well the Austin Sun, Psychotherapy Networker, and LA Weekly. In this collection, its title borrowed from a Butch Hancock song, the essays switch lanes with Hancocks evocative black-and-white photographs. Slowing down to take notice of a makeshift shrine in the Texas Panhandle or zipping along the New York Thruway before dawn, Ventura captures the details that make us think profoundly about work, music, poverty, beauty, our home on the planet and in the universe. About volcanoes and the Very Large Array. About friends and companions. About gods and goddesses and God. With Lubbock, Texas, and the Southwest as the books home base, If I Was a Highway roams widely and freely as Ventura takes readers on an unforgettable journey not only into the country but into the soul. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 730g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Feb 2011
  • Publisher: Texas Tech PressU.S.
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780896727069

About Butch HancockDan FloresHenry SteadMichael Ventura

Journalist poet and novelist Michael Ventura is the author of more than 1000 articles and eight books including Letters at 3AM: Reports on Endarkment and Cassavetes Directs. A native of New York City he has spent most of his writing life on the West Coast and now lives in Lubbock Texas.

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