Melanie McGrath

Motel Nirvana

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Now available in ebook format. ‘Motel Nirvana’ is Melanie McGrath’s first published book.
A book about the New Age movement and its American heartland. It concerns the author's travels around the south-western United States of Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, and her encounters with some of that region's most unusual communities and individuals.
‘Motel Nirvana’ won the 1996 John Llewellyn Rhys ‘Mail on Sunday’ prize for the best new British writer under 35.
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288 printed pages
Publication year
2013
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  • rosedale9has quoted8 years ago
    ate a piece of battered plaice
  • rosedale9has quoted8 years ago
    On the flatter stretches, across the southern tip of the painted desert, for example, I prop a copy of Mark Twain’s Roughing It on the steering wheel and read. By the time I reach Phoenix that evening, I am several hundred pages in without knowing quite how I got there.
  • rosedale9has quoted8 years ago
    During the last great war, a team of military mineralogists began digging about under the sandstone around Moab looking for deposits of a mineral they called vanadium, which was a military code name for uranium.

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