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For the first time since Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon returns to the back roads in search of what he calls "Quoz" -- things strange, incongrous or peculiar when Dick Estell reads Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey.
Heat-Moon and his wife "Q" travel across New Mexican deserts, into a Florida swamp, thorugh the White Mountains of New Hampshire and down an abandoned Idaho railroad that ends at a cafe serving pickle pie.
The journeys' highlights are the people and their stories along the way, like the man who tried to fund a school for disadvantaged children by providing lonely widows with special massages or the caretaker who travels the country with the 120-foot scroll manuscripts of Jack Kerouac's On the Road (worth $1,400 per inch) and calls it "Jack in the Box."
published: August 5, 2009
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