{"product_id":"9780312422622","title":"Stranger on a Train : Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eStranger on a Train\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Jenny Diski\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing two cross-country trips on Amtrak as her narrative vehicles, British writer Jenny Diski connects the humming rails, taking her into the heart of America with the track-like scars leading back to her own past. As in the highly acclaimed Skating to Antarctica, Diski has created a seamless and seemingly effortless amalgam of reflections and revelation in a unique combination of travelogue and memoir.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Distinctly Nabokovian. . .Funny, surprising and harrowing, \u003ci\u003eStranger on a Train \u003c\/i\u003edelivers the kind of adventure travel we will always need: its discoveries aren't new places but fresh new ways of seeing old ones.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eStranger on a Train\u003c\/i\u003e is not only a fun book (how un-British), it is an important book.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A dream of a writer...[\u003ci\u003eStranger on a Train\u003c\/i\u003e] does what the best travel literature does: It takes you somewhere. . . lovely.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A strange and wonderful journey that reads like a synthesis of Sylvia Plath, Martin Amis and the new journalism of John McPhee.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Times (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780312422622\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40667546812622,"sku":"9780312422622","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_2d593369-64c8-4392-9c31-d31777805e79.jpg?v=1639713059","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780312422622","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}