NOTES FROM THE ROAD...
“The beauty. The grandeur. The extraordinary contradictions.
But enough about Stephen.
What of America, the thrillingly varied colossus of a country that Stephen went to explore? What is the reality beneath the stereotypes of gun-toting and Bible-bashing?
In his chariot of Englishness — a black London cab — Stephen starts his epic journey on the east coast and zig zags across America, stopping in every state from Maine to Hawaii. En route he discovers the South Side of Chicago with blues legend Buddy Guy, marches with Zulus in New Orleans’ Mardi Gras and drums with the Sioux Nation in South Dakota...
Whether in a club for failed gangsters (yes, those are real bullet holes) or celebrating Halloween in Salem (is there anywhere better?) Stephen is welcomed by the people of America...This is the best of the big country, the best of the big brain and the best book about America by Stephen Fry you’ll ever read. What more need be said?"
Stephen Fry in America, Harper, p. 344, Rs. 399.
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