Big Rigs Elvis & the Grand Dragon Wayne

About this book

Collected from publications as diverse as Esquire Salon Utne Reader Orion Troika and Road King the essays in Big Rigs Elvis & The Grand Dragon Wayne range through territory stretching from the Wyoming plains to the heart of Budapest. The itinerary includes stops in the basement of a burning building a bunk room adjacent to a tenacious Central American prostitute and a gospel shout in a granary. This is life observed from a country musicians tour bus the cab of a careening Belizian sugarcane truck and the back of a runaway cutting horse. Whether hitchhiking with truckers or simply writing to decline a handwritten invitation to a Ku Klux Klan rally Michael Perry tells stories that are deceptively simple and abundantly wise.