Gringo star
- Title
- Gringo star / Stan Fogel.
- Published by
- Toronto : ECW Press, [1995], ©1995.
- Author
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| Status | FormatText | AccessRequest in advance | Call numberG465 .F64 1995g | Item locationOff-site |
Details
- Description
- 160 pages : illustrations, portraits; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Collected in Gringo Star are Fogel's quirky travel pieces. Among other things, he lifts weights on a coral atoll in the mid-Pacific; he is mesmerized by "she-males" in a small town in southern France; he spends a few days trying to become 'Professor Roadie' with the David Bowie rock 'n' roll tour.".
- "Witty, outrageous, and insightful, Gringo Star is marked by a breezy energy. It also displays a sense of irony rarely seen in travel writing: the awareness that a keen observational eye is less important than a self-reflexive glance at the privileged traveller himself. Few have written as superficially - and that is meant as a compliment to a travel writer who knows how unknowing most outsiders are about cultures other than their own."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries