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Big Rigs, Elvis & the Grand Dragon Wayne (paperback)

From the book jacket: “Collected from publications as diverse as Esquire, Salon, Utne Reader, Orion, Troika and Road King, the essays in Big Rigs, Elvis & The Grand Dragon Wayne range through territory stretching from the Wyoming plains to the heart of Budapest.  The itinerary includes stops in the basement of a burning building, a bunk room adjacent to a tenacious Central American prostitute, and a gospel shout in a granary.  This is life observed from a country musician’s tour bus, the cab of a careening Belizian sugarcane truck, and the back of a runaway cutting horse.  Whether hitchhiking with truckers or simply writing to decline a handwritten invitation to a Ku Klux Klan rally, Michael Perry tells stories that are deceptively simple and abundantly wise.”

NOTE: 15 of the 20 essays in this book were subsequently re-published in Off Main Street.

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