| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 250 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Preface / Robert Wilson -- Introduction / Sudip Bose -- Paradise regained / Thomas Mallon -- Museum of who we were / Suzanne Freeman -- Peaceable kingdom / Edward Hoagland -- Hiding out in Mañanaland / Ann Beattie -- Doorway to heaven / Brian Doyle -- Rooms to grow in / Morris Halle -- Spirit of Maui / Reeve Lindbergh -- Fire this time / Madison Smartt Bell -- On the dock of the bay / Roy Hoffman -- Something there is that loves a wall / Noel Perrin -- On loan from the Sundance Sea / Scott Russell Sanders -- Fine madness / Jan Morris -- Building for the ages / Stephen Goodwin -- Vagaries of memory / Maurice Isserman -- Something fishy in small town X / Wayne Curtis -- Sensation of infinity / Anita Desai -- Best big room / Malcolm Jones -- Other upstate / Frederick Busch -- Glory of McKinney, Texas / Kate Lehrer -- How a house restored a family / James Conaway -- Water under the bridge / Paul Mariani -- Song of Sonoma / Stanley Abercrombie -- Grand entrances / Edith Pearlman -- Anthology in clapboard / Jay Parini -- Hamlet in the hills / David Huddle -- Views from a bench above the sea / Anthony Walton -- History in concrete / Blaine Harden -- Swearing by the sandlot / John Hough, Jr. -- Metropolitan hideaways / Phyllis Rose -- Sweet Lorain / Michael Dirda |
| Subject |
Voyages and travels -- Anecdotes.
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Authors -- Travel -- United States -- Anecdotes.
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Authors -- Travel -- Anecdotes.
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Travelers' writings.
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United States -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes.
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| Added Author |
Wilson, Robert, 1951 February 21-
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| ISBN |
037550849X hardcover alkaline paper |
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