![]() ![]() ![]() Buzzell unearths Americas bones in all their beauty and starkness. He captures the distinct voices and vivid stories of a forgotten AmericaCheyenne, Omaha, Salt Lake City, Des Moines, Detroit, and San Franciscos Tenderloin. With a bottle of whisky in one hand and a pack of cigarettes in the other, he takes us on a tour of big-box stores, grimy gas stations, abandoned warehouses, strip clubs, and flophouses. ![]() In his 1965 Mercury Comet, Buzzell travels through the bowels of a country steeped in economic turmoil and political malaise. Desperate to escape the constraints of his postwar existence, he packs his things, gets in the car, and, for five months, drives across Americano map, no destination. Half a decade later, overwhelmed by the birth of his son and the death of his mother, Buzzell finds himself rudderless. An autodidact who never went to college, he was dubbed the voice of a generation by Robert Kurson for his daring and critically acclaimed book, My War: Killing Time in Iraq. ![]()
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