Assassination Vacation
by:
Sarah Vowell (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780684033662 (0684033666)
Publish date: 2005
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 258
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Book Club,
Politics,
American History
Jokey anecdote-led historical/travel non-fiction! I love all these things! Sarah Vowell is quirky teetering on the edge of Quirky – her elementary school nickname was Wednesday (as in Addams), what droll classmates she must have had – and she's written historical travelogue about American presidenti...
For a unique and morbid vacation experience, Sarah Vowell decided to travel the country by visiting locations where politicians have been assassinated. In this book, she shares interesting anecdotes, both from history and her own experiences, as well as a ton of fun facts. I really liked this approa...
If you enjoy Sarah Vowell's stream-of-consciousness, phobic, obsessive voice, you'll love this book.Vowell is wacky, and I say that in the nicest way. She writes very honestly and openly, which I enjoy because she is so wacky - absolutely obsessed with the assassinated presidents, which kind of fre...
2.5 stars. Parts of the book were relatively interesting, but I think the overall narrative suffered because of the author's meandering, jumpy style (along w/ the fact that she often had pretty stringent political asides about "current" politics -- current for the time of the book's writing, i.e., t...
Vowell finds herself a lot more hilarious than I do.
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