Patrick Hicks Greater Minnesota review, recensie en informatie boek met reisverhalen over de Amerikaans staat. Op 1 september 2025 verschijnt bij Indiana University Press het boek van Patrick Hicks over Minnesota. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.
Patrick Hicks Greater Minnesota review en recensie
- “Greater Minnesota had me spellbound about my own home state. I had thought I knew all there was to know. How wrong I was. Patrick Hicks delivers to us a travel book, a compendium of fascinating facts, a mini-memoir, a love letter, a reportorial tour de force, and an ode to the Land of Sky-Blue Waters. All of it wonderfully written, all of it vividly painted in words. What a fine, fine book.” (Tim O’Brien)
- “In Greater Minnesota, Patrick Hicks invites the reader to join him on an enjoyable 6500-mile road trip to various corners of the North Star State. In these fascinating essays, Hicks seamlessly blends history, local legends and lore, interviews, and his own personal insights into a delectable literary hotdish. Whether you’re a lifetime Minnesotan or an outsider peering in, you’ll find these essays both enlightening and entertaining. Meditative moments on Lake Superior, bustling lumber towns, the sound of a slice of SPAM hitting a frying pan, life-sized state fair princesses sculpted in butter—they’re all here. So, hop into the passenger’s seat with Patrick at the wheel. You’re guaranteed to have a great ride.” (Bill Meisner)
Greater Minnesota
Exploring the Land of Sky-Blue Waters
- Auteur: Patrick Hicks (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: reisverhalen uit Minnesota
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Indiana University Press
- Verschijnt: 1 september 2025
- Omvang: 208 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $ 25,00 / $ 55,00
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon
Flaptekst van het boek over Minnesota van Patrick Hicks
A witty, wise, and affectionate journey to every corner of the North Star State. After years of living abroad, writer and poet Patrick Hicks returns to Minnesota only to find that his home state feels like a foreign country.
In the tradition of Bill Bryson and Paul Theroux, Greater Minnesota is an account of Hicks’s discoveries. Half travelogue, half history, and fully delightful in its exploration of new places and people, this book follows Hicks as he ventures to the North Shore, the Iron Range, the Southwest, and even Up North in the dead of winter. As he travels the back roads of the state, he visits the Mayo Clinic, the SPAM Museum, ancient petroglyphs, the US Hockey Hall of Fame, the birthplace of Minnesota Public Radio, a world-class aviation museum hidden on the prairie, a lost forest, the humble start of the Mississippi River, and other stops along the way that are both surprising and intriguing.
Through conversations with people on his travels, Greater Minnesota brings the reader along as he searches for what it means to be a Minnesotan.
Patrick Hicks grew up in Stillwater, Minnesota, and is an Irish American novelist, poet, and essayist. ACfter living in Europe for many years, he now lives in the Midwest where he is the Writer-in-Residence at Augustana University as well as a faculty member in the MFA program at the University of Nevada Reno at Lake Tahoe. He is the author of over ten books, including The Commandant of Lubizecand Across the Lake.