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Also by Ted Conover:

The Routes of Man, February 2010
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Rolling Nowhere, September 2001
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Newjack, June 2001
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ROLLING NOWHERE
By: Ted Conover

Riding The Rails With America's Hoboes

Vintage
September 2001
On Sale: September 11, 2001
304 pages
ISBN: 0375727868
EAN: 9780375727863
Kindle: B009ZN1KZC
Paperback / e-Book
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Non-Fiction

Hoboes fascinated Conover, but he had only encountered them in literature and folksongs. So, he decided to take a year off and ride the rails. Equipped with rummage-store clothing, a bedroll, and a few other belongings, he hops a freight train in St. Louis, becoming a tramp in order to discover their peculiar culture. The men and women he meets along the way are by turns generous and mistrusting, resourceful and desperate, philosophical and profoundly cynical. And the narrative he creates of his travels with them is unforgettable and moving.

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