{"product_id":"motel-nirvana-paperback","title":"Motel Nirvana - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMelanie McGrath\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"McGrath is a cool-eyed chronicler of a dispossessed generation - philosophical, astute and ultimately unforgiving. This is no pseudo rock'n'roll road trip, but an accessible and insightful study of the modern condition. The final autobiographical chapter is breathtaking.\"\u003cbr\u003eDEBORAH BOSLEY, 'Literary Review'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"McGrath meets the nation's lost souls of the New Age. A 267-year-old princess from the tribe of Atlantis, a technoshaman, an alien who talks to Barbie dolls, an overweight angel and a prince who will never die all impress her with their certainties as much as they depress her with their chronic self-awareness. It's an ambitious debut: McGrath has a keen sense for deadpan descriptions of off-kilter encounters, and an acute knack for deflating the Myth.\"\u003cbr\u003eEMER BRIZZOLARA, 'Ikon'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fortifying herself with booze, cigarettes and a useful amount of asperity and common sense, McGrath painstakingly trawls the aisles of the spiritual supermarket. She writes beautifully about the terrain, offers deliciously dyspeptic observations...and is very funny on the sense of spiralling dislocation which arises from being confronted not just with unfamiliar behaviour but with 'an entirely inner architecture'.\"\u003cbr\u003eMICK BROWN, 'Daily Telegraph'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcGrath has a fine, questing mind, a splendid eye for detail and a healthily cynical attitude. Confronted at every turn - in her deliciously sardonic picaresque travelogue through America's south-western desert states - by the strange, the sinister and the just plain barmy...she maintains a fine, dense and colourful narrative that brings the desert landscape and the loony-tune New Agers vividly to life.\"\u003cbr\u003eNICK CURTIS, 'Financial Times'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMel McGrath is an Essex girl, co-founder of Killer Women, and an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction. As MJ McGrath she writes the acclaimed Edie Kiglatuk series of Arctic mysteries. As Melanie McGrath she wrote the critically acclaimed, bestselling memoir \u003cem\u003eSilvertown\u003c\/em\u003e. As Mel McGrath she is the author of the bestselling psychological thrillers \u003cem\u003eGive Me the Child\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Guilty Party\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTwo Wrongs\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 21, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42736699506751,"sku":"9780006547150","price":13.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/dc4dc77b6de6ab3dda09a1520b3c434f.webp?v=1765147553","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/motel-nirvana-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}