Blue Highways: A Journey into America Audiobook

Quotes

• “Wondrous...brilliant...a stunningly good book...Reading Blue Highways made me go back and look at Jack Kerouac’s On the Road to see if Mr. Least Heat-Moon does as well. He does far better.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “Heat-Moon walks through this book...with a patient, eloquent, beautiful pace, his eyes taking in everything and its meaning. Then he puts our words and our vistas into language that lives on the page.”

  — Los Angeles Times Book Review

• “Heat-Moon is a witty, generous, sophisticated, and democratic observer. His modesty, kindly humor, and his uncanny gift of catching good people at good moments makes Blue Highways a joy to read.”

  — Annie Dillard, New York Times bestselling author

• “A masterpiece...a magnificent and unique tour.”

  — Robert Penn Warren, New York Times bestselling author

• “It’s a beauty, a true delight on every page.”

  — Walker Percy, New York Times bestselling author

• “William Least Heat-Moon writes with true heat and pungency about an America that scarcely anybody knows about, an America that we have been led to believe no longer exists...An overwhelming book.”

  — Jim Harrison, New York Times bestselling author

• “Better than Kerouac.”

  — Chicago Sun-Times

• “Blue Highways is a splendid book, outstanding Americana.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “The real life of the book...lies in the amazing variety of American originals the lonely and curious author meets along the way...Half-Moon has the judgement to step aside and let them tell their own often remarkable stories in their own words. The results are unexpected and sometimes very funny.”

  — Newsweek

• “American travel writing is a constantly rewarding genre in the right hands. William Least Heat-Moon has great hands.”

  — Time

• “Plenty of plain good old entertainment. Heat-Moon has a penchant for humor: a zanier cast of characters has rarely been paraded before modern-day readers.”

  — Christian Science Monitor

• “Heat-Moon’s literary portraits of ordinary Americans should not be merely read, but savored.”

  — Amazon.com, editorial review

• “If you would like to know who and what America is at the center, read this book. This is what we, as a people, are about.”

  — N. Scott Momaday