“Explaining how to find her café in Gas, Kansas, Bonnie Steward said, ‘Come down Route 12, but if you blink, you'll pass Gas.'” Gas isn't all you'll be passing if you come along for the ride with author Gary Gladstone on a cross-country road trip across the U.S.A. With camera in hand and the penchant for the unexpected, Gladstone captures a photographic portrait of small towns with unusual names and the folks who keep them on the map with their (admittedly offbeat) civic pride. You'll meet bar buddies Don, Ron, and Flakey Jake from Goofy Ridge, Illinois; stop in at the mechanics shop in Nothing, Arizona, to confirm that Nothing really does sit in the middle of nowhere; and be regaled with colorful stories from the locals of Boogertown, North Carolina, about how the town got its name. So jump in the backseat of the car and get ready for an honest slice of apple-pie America, chock full of myths, legends, and laughs.• Gary Gladstone received the 1999 Award for Visual Excellence from the Image Bank, one of the nation's leading photo agencies.
| |||||||||||||||
Book Description
Frequently Bought Together
Editorial Reviews
Review
“[Gladstone's] book, like the communities in West Virginia and Ohio, is Odd and Delightful.” Entertainment Weekly“His [Gladstone's] book, like the communities in West Virginia and Ohio, is Odd and Delightful.” —Entertainment WeeklyThe Seattle Times ran several photos and a review below the headline: “From Purgatory (Maine) to Hell (Michigan).” Find out how Big Ugly got its name in this video about the making of the books Reaching Climax and Passing Gas
From the Publisher
•Gary Gladstone received the 1999 Award for Visual Excellence from the Image Bank, one of the nation’s leading photo agencies.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
"Passing Gas"--a little at a time!,
By Todd V. Phillips (Bloomington, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Passing Gas: And Other Towns Along the American Highway (Paperback)
With an excellent blend of humor and superb photographs, Gary Gladstone has produced a visual American travelogue of places along the endless blue highways of the United States.It is a look into the smaller than small towns emphasizing not only the town (one with a population of six) but the ambience of the location as well.Have you ever been behind the scenes of a photo shoot with a professional photographer? If not, this book will tell you about the pre-planning that needs to be done, the struggle for good light (or any light at all) and the trials and tribulations of a photographer "on the road".Grab a good chair, something cold to drink, and get ready to grin!
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Classical Gas,
This review is from: Passing Gas: And Other Towns Along the American Highway (Paperback)
A fun coffeetable book with great stories and photos alike. Takes you to all of those oddly (aptly?) named places in America that you'd never visit on purpose but often wondered what went on there and what are the people really like? Truth is stranger than fiction when it comes to some of our neighbors in these United States.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
It's Not About the Gas,
By Suzanne Poor (Verona, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Passing Gas: And Other Towns Along the American Highway (Paperback)
When Gary Gladstone began his odyssey crossing and cris crossing the country, little did he know that his delightful and insightful daily journal entries would provide the extra je ne sais quois that makes his book so poignant and actually greater than the individual parts. The photographs are wonderful, made with careful calculations of light and subject; the language is down-to- -- touching passions, fears and joy most of us identify with.Passing Gas is more than a coffee table book; it's an inspsiration to all of us who make photographs and aspire to being compelling writers at the same time.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
It was unusually quiet that Saturday morning at the upstate New York weekly newspaper where I worked part-time as a copy boy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ding Dong, New York, Toad Suck, Goofy Ridge, John David, Scratch Ankle, Tight Squeeze, Zip City, Civil War, Dry Run, Booger Mountain, World War New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
It was unusually quiet that Saturday morning at the upstate New York weekly newspaper where I worked part-time as a copy boy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ding Dong, New York, Toad Suck, Goofy Ridge, John David, Scratch Ankle, Tight Squeeze, Zip City, Civil War, Dry Run, Booger Mountain, World War New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
![[Start the discussion]](http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/x-locale/communities/discussion_boards/start-new-discussion-sec._V192250339_.gif){kind=small}
