Way off the Road : Discovering the Peculiar Charms of Small-Town America

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Broadway Books
ISBN-10
0767922727
ISBN-13
9780767922722
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57188619

Product Key Features

Book Title
Way Off the Road : Discovering the Peculiar Charms of Small-Town America
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
United States / State & Local / General, General, United States / General, Sociology / Urban
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Social Science, Humor, History
Author
Bill Geist
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
17.3 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-100688
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"A breezy account of [Geist's] travels off the beaten, and sometimes left-for-dead, paths."  -New York Times Book Review "Wise and funny." -Chicago Sun Times "Geist genuinely delights in his finds, and readers will, too." -Library Journal "Driving around the country through the eyes and words of Geist is precious. Clearly, Kuralt didn't locateallthe strange things." -Deseret Morning News From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Decimal
973.924020/7
Synopsis
Coming on the heels of Geist's 5,600-mile RV trip across America is a hilarious and compelling mix of stories along with some observations on his 20 years of life on the road., Celebrated roving correspondent forCBS Sunday Morningand bestselling author Bill Geist serves up a rollicking look at some small-town Americans and their offbeat ways of life. "In rural Kansas, I asked our motel desk clerk for the name of the best restaurant in the area. After mulling it over, he answered: 'I'd have to say the Texaco, 'cuz the Shell don't have no microwave.'"Throughout his career, Bill Geist's most popular stories have been about slightly odd but loveable individuals. Coming on the heels of his 5,600-mile RV trip across our fair land isWay Off the Road, a hilarious and compelling mix of stories about the folks featured in Geist's segments, along with observations on his twenty years of life on the road. Written in the deadpan style that has endeared him to millions, Geist shares tales of eccentric individuals, such as the ninety-three-year-old pilot-paperboy who delivers to his far-flung subscribers by pla≠ the Arizona mailman who delivers mail via horseback down the walls of the Grand Canyon; the Muleshoe, Texas, anchorwoman who delivers the news from her bedroom (occasionally wearing her bathrobe); and the struggling Colorado entrepreneur who finds success employing a sewer vacuum to rid Western ranchers of problematic prairie dogs. Geist also takes us to events such as the Mike the Headless Chicken Festival (celebrating an inspiring bird that survived decapitation, hired an agent, and went on the road for eighteen months) and Sundown Days in Hanlontown, Iowa, where the town marks the one day a year when the sun sets directly between the railroad tracks.Along the wacky and wonderful way, Geist shows us firsthand how life in fly-over America can be odd, strangely fascinating, hysterical, and anything but boring., " To say it very simply, freezer burn may very well have set in." -- neighbor on the frozen dead guy kept on ice in a backyard shed in Nederland, Colorado. " Everybody loves a parade; we were just geographically challenged." -- David Harrenstein, organizer of a parade in tiny Whalan, Minnesota, where viewers are in motion and the " marchers" stand still. " We haven't lost anyone off these switchbacks in at least ten days" -- Mailman Charlie Chamberlain, leading us on horseback 2,500 feet down the sheer walls of the Grand Canyon. " Ours are the finest cow chips in the world today, " -- Kirk Fisher, enthusiast, in Beaver, Oklahoma, world cow-chip capital and cow- chip exporter. " We live out in the middle of the corn and bean fields, and there's not a whole lot to get excited about, you know?" -- Dan Moretz, on celebrating the day the sun sets in the middle of the railroad tracks in Hanlontown, Iowa. " It's like drilling for oil; sometimes you come up dry." -- Gay Balfour, who sucks problematic prairie dogs out of the ground with a sewer vacuum in Cortez, Colorado. " All you have to do is beat the flies to it, " -- Michael " Roadkill" Coffman on the secrets of cooking with roadkill outside Lawrence, Kansas. " I ain't gonna brake til I see God!" -- driver named " Red Dog, " taking the track at a figure-eight school bus race in Bithlo, Florida. " It's a gift; youeither got it or you don' t." -- Lee Wheelis, world watermelon-seed-spitting champion, Luling, Texas. " I am the mayor, the board, the secretary-treasurer, the librarian, the bartender -- that's my most important title -- the cook, the floor sweeper, the police chief, and I have the books for the cemetery, if someone wants to buy a plot." -- Elsie Eiler, the sole citizen of Monowi, Nebraska.Celebrated roving correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning" and bestselling author Bill Geist serves up a rollicking look at some small-town Americans and their offbeat ways of life. " In rural Kansas, I asked our motel desk clerk for the name of the best restaurant in the area. After mulling it over, he answered: ' I'd have to say the Texaco, 'cuz the Shell don't have no microwave.' " Throughout his career, Bill Geist's most popular stories have been about slightly odd but loveable individuals. Coming on the heels of his 5,600-mile RV trip across our fair land is "Way Off the Road," a hilarious and compelling mix of stories about the folks featured in Geist's segments, along with observations on his twenty years of life on the road. Written in the deadpan style that has endeared him to millions, Geist shares tales of eccentric individuals, such as the ninety-three-year-old pilot-paperboy who delivers to his far-flung subscribers by plane; the Arizona mailman who delivers mail via horseback down the walls of the Grand Canyon; the Muleshoe, Texas, anchorwoman who delivers the news from her bedroom (occasionally wearing her bathrobe); and the struggling Colorado entrepreneur who finds successemploying a sewer vacuum to rid Western ranchers of problematic prairie dogs. Geist also takes us to events such as the Mike the Headless Chicken Festival (celebrating an inspiring bird that survived decapitation, hired an agent, and went on the road for eighteen months) and Sundown Days in Hanlontown, Iowa, where the town marks the one day a year when the sun sets directly between the railroad tracks Along the wacky and wonderful way, Geist shows us firsthand how life in fly-over America can be odd, strangely fascinating, hysterical, and anything but boring.
LC Classification Number
E169.Z83G45 2007

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