Dispatches from pluto book by richard grant official. His previous books are crazy river, gods middle finger, and american nomads. Readers with an appetite for a deepfried version of a year in provence will find much to sate them here. Lost and found in the mississippi delta, was as difficult for him as living here was joyous. Documents and forms us department of transportation. Dispatches from pluto is a book as unique as the delta itself. Its lively, entertaining, and funny, containing a travel writers flair for indepth reporting alongside insightful reflections on poverty, community, and race.
Dispatches from pluto, driving hungry and more the. He grew up in london, england, and now lives in jackson, mississippi. Lost and found in the mississippi delta 1st by richard grant isbn. In dispatches from pluto, adventure writer richard grant takes on the most american place on earththe enigmatic, beautiful, often derided mississippi delta. Dispatches from pluto is their journey of richard grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox apartment in new york city when they decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the mississippi delta.
His latest book is dispatches from pluto, a new york times bestseller and winner of the pat conroy southern book prize. Lost and found in the mississippi delta, grant finds something more surprising than the drug smugglers and maneating crocodiles of his past adventures he finds some sense of home. Lost and found in the mississippi delta audible audio edition. Grant approaches his subjects with empathy, yet pulls no punches. In dispatches from pluto, adventure writer richard grant tak. Grant is like a deeper and way funkier version of peter mayle. Since selling the house in april 2015, hes been back only twice. Its also a love story, as the nomadic grant learns to settle down. Lost and found in the mississippi delta richard grant from a real book store. Richard grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox apartment in new york city when they decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the mississippi delta. Part travelogue, part sociological study, part memoir, and part nonfiction heir to the works of william faulkner and tennessee williams, dispatches from pluto is provocative in the best kind of way. Dispatches from pluto book by richard grant official publisher.
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