{"product_id":"three-kinds-of-motion-riley-hanick-9781936747900","title":"Three Kinds of Motion: Kerouac, Pollock, and the Making of American Highways","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Like a great conversationalist, Hanick paints a generous canvas, and I rode the length of this powerful book much like I first experienced the American interstate: songs on the stereo, windows down, and the bittersweet sense that youth is fleeting. \u003ci\u003eThree Kinds of Motion\u003c\/i\u003e holds open a wild and beautiful journey, not to be missed.\"--Thalia Field\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1943, Peggy Guggenheim commissioned a mural from Jackson Pollock to hang in the entryway of her Manhattan townhouse. It was the largest Pollock canvas she would ever own, and four years later she gave it to a small Midwestern institution with no place to put it. When the original scroll of \u003ci\u003eOn the Road\u003c\/i\u003e goes on tour across the country, it lands at the same Iowa museum housing Peggy's Pollock, revitalizing Riley Hanick's adolescent fascination with the author. Alongside these two narrative threads, Hanick revisits Dwight D. Eisenhower's quest to build America's first interstate highway system. When catastrophic rains flood the Iowa highways with their famous allure and history of conquest, they also threaten the museum and its precious mural. In \u003ci\u003eThree Kinds of Motion\u003c\/i\u003e, his razor-sharp, funny, and intensely vulnerable book-length essay, Hanick moves deftly between his three subjects. He delivers a story with breathtaking ingenuity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRiley Hanick\u003c\/b\u003e is an essayist, journalist, and translator. His work has received support from the Jentel and McKnight foundations and he has served as a writer-in-residence for the University of Iowa Museum of Art. He teaches at Murray State University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Riley Hanick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1936747901\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936747900\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarabande Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.20w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/02\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2015 pg. 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/24\/2015\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Riley Hanick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937613381887,"sku":"9781936747900","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_1568c8e0-4dda-44cb-bc48-0821bf39b6ce.jpg?v=1681431069","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/three-kinds-of-motion-riley-hanick-9781936747900","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}