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FROM: <[removed]@aol.com>
REC'D: 11/4/99, 5:30 AM

I am a masters student currently working on my thesis. I have written a road
trip novel with a female protagonist to turn in as the creative portion of my
thesis. For the research component of my thesis, I am trying to locate any
and all Post World War 2 American fictional road trip novels which feature a
female protagonist and would be considered to have arisen out of
counter-cultural movements. Any help you could give me would be greatly
appreciated. I realize that this is a fiction group, but, am also trying to
locate any and all reference sources which might also be of assistance,
including any web site or news groups anyone might be able to recommend.

Thank you in advance for all your assistance.
Adrienne Lenhoff

FROM: "Joanna Hazelden" <[removed]@chipublib.org>
REC'D: 11/4/99, 9:25 AM

Since counter culture movements had such a big impact, it be hard to define
something that was not affected in some way or another. One novel I though of was
something I did for a book discussion, "Going to the Sun" by James McManus. It's
about a woman who attempts to travel to Canada from Chicago by bicycle. I
remember asking the list for similar books on this list and people came up with
some, so the list should be in the Fiction L archives somewhere.

Joanna Hazelden
Harold Washington Library Center
The Chicago Public Library

[removed]@aol.com wrote:

> I am a masters student currently working on my thesis. I have written a road
> trip novel with a female protagonist to turn in as the creative portion of my
> thesis. For the research component of my thesis, I am trying to locate any
> and all Post World War 2 American fictional road trip novels which feature a
> female protagonist and would be considered to have arisen out of
> counter-cultural movements. Any help you could give me would be greatly
> appreciated. I realize that this is a fiction group, but, am also trying to
> locate any and all reference sources which might also be of assistance,
> including any web site or news groups anyone might be able to recommend.
>
> Thank you in advance for all your assistance.
> Adrienne Lenhoff

FROM: "Kathleen Marszycki" <[removed]@biblio.org>
REC'D: 11/4/99, 10:02 AM

Several writers/works come to mind, so here are a few suggestions:
SpinsterInk Press (?) just published within last year a "on the road" work
by Helen Campbell (?) called "Turnip Blues" (two elderly women make a
pilgrimage to gravesite of female blues singer; trip precipitates memories
of family, childhood, etc.); Shirley Jackson had an unfinished work that
was recently published ("Come Along With Me?") in which older woman takes
the family auto and leaves husband behind to begin a road trip. There was
a recent work published entitles "Taking the Wheel" which examines women's
relationship with the automobile. May be of help to you? If any more come
to mind, I'll send along -- good luck! It's a wonderful subject ---

Kelly Marszycki, Director
Old Lyme Library
Old Lyme, CT 06371


At 06:32 AM 11/4/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I am a masters student currently working on my thesis. I have written a
road
>trip novel with a female protagonist to turn in as the creative portion of
my
>thesis. For the research component of my thesis, I am trying to locate any
>and all Post World War 2 American fictional road trip novels which feature a
>female protagonist and would be considered to have arisen out of
>counter-cultural movements. Any help you could give me would be greatly
>appreciated. I realize that this is a fiction group, but, am also trying to
>locate any and all reference sources which might also be of assistance,
>including any web site or news groups anyone might be able to recommend.
>
>Thank you in advance for all your assistance.
>Adrienne Lenhoff
>

FROM: "ROBIN BEERBOWER" <[removed]@OPENGOVT.OPEN.ORG>
REC'D: 11/4/99, 12:11 PM

How about WHERE THE ROAD GOES by Joanne Greenberg. It's about a 62
year-old woman who, "in the spirit of her activist youth," leaves her
family and friends to go on an Environmental Walk across America.

Also, Catherine Alpert's ROCKET CITY is a good road novel but I can't
rememer if her trip arose from a counter-cultural movement.

Robin Beerbower
Salem (OR) Public Library
[removed]@open.org

Robin Beerbower

>>> <[removed]@aol.com> 11/04/99 03:32am >>>
I am a masters student currently working on my thesis. I have written a
road
trip novel with a female protagonist to turn in as the creative portion of
my
thesis. For the research component of my thesis, I am trying to locate any

and all Post World War 2 American fictional road trip novels which feature
a
female protagonist and would be considered to have arisen out of
counter-cultural movements. Any help you could give me would be greatly
appreciated. I realize that this is a fiction group, but, am also trying
to
locate any and all reference sources which might also be of assistance,
including any web site or news groups anyone might be able to recommend.

Thank you in advance for all your assistance.
Adrienne Lenhoff

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