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America Day by Day
by Simone De Beauvoir
There are plenty of books on the “great American road trip”;
there are not so many as deliciously told as this, however. In 1947
the French writer spent four months travelling by car, Greyhound
and train between New
York and LA
– and back again – tucking into the states’ diverse customs and
cultures en route. She encounters
Chicago‘s underworld of morphine addicts, gambles in Reno and
smokes her first joint at the Plaza Hotel.