If I Was a Highway

by Michael Ventura

Book Overview

Michael Ventura owned only one car his entire life: a green '69 Chevy Malibu. Its wheels have crisscrossed the American landscape over more miles than a round trip to the moon.

From Times Square to Terlingua, from Maine to Los Angeles, from Austin to Deadwood, Ventura has chronicled the continent in "a kind of switchback journey in image and thought." His essays convey a tactile and intimate relationship with land and people--and of course...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682830101
• ISBN13: 9781682830109
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.2"