Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station in Boston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux winds up on the poky, wandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine, which comes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thorn bushes. But with Theroux the view along the wa
The American Express
β Scribed by Gregory Corso
- Publisher
- Disruptive Publishing
- Year
- 1961
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 494 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1626575126
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Beat poet Corso's only novel. Inspired by his days in Europe, anxiously waiting for royalty checks and advances that were slow to appear, this freewheeling and farcical tale is the account of a birth in AmEx, and what came of it. With illustrations by the author. First published 1961 as No. 85 in the Traveller's Companion Series. First American publication.
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