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100 1 _aRoberson, Blythe,
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245 1 0 _aAmerica the beautiful? One woman in a borrowed prius on the road most traveled
250 _a1a. ed.
264 3 1 _aNew York :
_bHarper Collins Publishers,
_c2023
300 _aviii, 294 páginas
300 _bImpreso
336 _2rdacontent
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337 _2rdamedia
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520 3 _aIntroduction: It´s a free country. The plains: Hermergency; Somewwhat complex flesh machine; This one´s hard; Leaves of Gas, Grass or Ass. The intermountain west: A weird cactus doing really well for itself; Why isn´t this rock famous?; Wedgie test; Where do they put the bison at night?; Be respectful for fuck?s sake. The west coast: Heroic nature adventurer; Living the life of a normal human; No offense to clouds; Against stripping yosemite for parts; The national parks suck ass. The southwest: See trees while trees still exist; Watching, screaming; Okay, marfa slaps; Returning to the toilet women. Acknowledgments.
520 3 _bFor writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, there are only so many Mary Oliver poems you can read about being free, and only so many times you can listen to Joni Mitchell’s travel album Hejira, before you too, are itching to take off. Canonical American travel writers have long celebrated the road trip as the epitome of freedom. But why does it seem like all those canonical travel narratives are written by white men who have no problems, who only decide to go the desert to see what having problems feels like?To fill in the literary gaps and quench her own sense of adventure, Roberson quits her day job and sets off on a Great American Road Trip to visit America’s national parks.America the Beautiful? is a hilarious trip into the mind of one of the Millennial generation’s funniest writers. Borrowing her Midwestern stepfather’s Prius, she heads west to the Loop of mega-popular parks, over to the ocean and down the Pacific Coast Highway, and, in a feat of spectacularly bad timing, through the southwestern desert in the middle of July. Along the way she meets new friends on their own personal quests, learns to cope with abstinence while missing the comforts of home, and comes to understand the limits—and possibilities—of going to nature to prove to yourself and your Instagram followers that you are, in fact, free.The result is a laugh-out-loud-while-occasionally-raging-inside travelogue, filled with meditations and many, many jokes on ecotourism, conservation, freedom, traffic, climate change, and the structural and financial inequalities that limit so many Americans’ movement. Ultimately, Roberson ponders the question: Is quitting society and going on the road about enlightenment and liberty—or is it just selfish escapism?
650 1 4 _aAUTOBIOGRAFÍA
650 1 4 _aCULTURA POPULAR
650 1 4 _aDIARIO DE VIAJE
650 1 4 _aHUMOR
650 1 4 _aMEMORIAS
650 1 4 _aVIAJES
654 0 _a808.8035 - Literatura autobiográfica
654 0 _a808.8035 - Literatura autobiográfica
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