Boomer
Railroad Memoirs
Linda Niemann
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This classic account of self discovery and railroad life describes Linda Grant Niemann’s travels as an itinerant brakeman on the Southern Pacific. Boomer combines travelogue, Wild West adventure, sexual memoir, and closely observed ethnography. A Berkeley Ph.D., Niemann turned her back on academia and set out to master the craft of railroad brakeman, beginning a journey of sexual and subcultural exploration and traveling down a path toward recovery from alcoholism. In honest, clean prose, Niemann treks off the beaten path and into the forgotten places along the rail lines, finding true American characters with colorful pasts?and her true self as well
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ISBN | 9780520068445 |
Genre | Autobiography/Biography |
Copyright Date | 1990 |
Publication Date | 01-Feb-90 |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Format | Hardcover |
No. of Pages | 268 |
Language | English |
Rating | NotRated |
Subject | Business & Economics / General; Niemann, Linda; Women Railroad Employees; Women Railroad Employees – United States – Biography; Women Railroad Employees/ United States/ Biography |
BookID | 1415 |