Driving by memory

Name: Driving by memory
Author: William L. Fox
ISBN: 0826319440

by William L. Fox (1999)

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Road trips to Las Vegas are the occasion for this entertaining meditation on the quintessentially American experience of driving across the desert. William Fox, successively exiled from California, Nevada, and New Mexico, has spent more time than most of us driving to Las Vegas - and he has taken notes on three recent trips, his own way of bringing cohesion to the vast and mind-numbing aspects of the freeway. Approaching the most post-modern city on the planet from three directions, he examines the landscape and what we do to it while also trying to figure out who he is, what that means, and the nature of the transformations of land into landscape through art and architecture, landscape design, and advertising. Fox's history of the region, both natural and cultural, highlights the creep of the urban supergrid across the most extensively traveled desert in the world.

Setting / LocationCalifornia

Story EraModern Era

Protagonist / CoreDriving by memory Lead Character

Themes & Moods

Travel & Adventure Travel Automobile travel Description and travel Automobile travel, guidebooks United states, description and travel Modern Era

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