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Roughing it De Luxe

by Cobb Irvin Shrewsbury

Literature & Fiction » Contemporary

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Roughing it De Luxe belongs to the pen of an extremely prolific American author and journalist who wrote more than 60 books and 300 short stories. This is a story in which the Mrs. Cobb describes her journey to the west of America. We find out that at first she went to Arizona, to the Grand Canyon, then she found herself in San Diego and Los Angeles and the end of her trip was Utah and Colorado. The book is well structured and expressive, humorous in many scenes. A real godsend for a reader who looks forward to having a couple of hours of light, adventurous and amusing reading.

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...can get anywhere on earth--and served in as good style, too. To the man fresh from the East, such an establishment reminds himvividly of the hurry-up railroad lunch places to which he has beenaccustomed back home--places where the doughnuts are dornicks and thepickles are fossils, and the hard-boiled egg got up out of a sick bed tobe there, and on the pallid yellow surface of the official pie a coupleof hundred flies are enacting Custard's Last Stand. It reminds him ofthem because it is so different. Between Kansas City and the Coast thereare a dozen or more of these hotels scattered along the line. And so, with real food to stay you and one of Tuskegee's bright, straw-colored graduates to minister to your wants in the sleeper, youcome on the morning of the third day to the Grand Cañon in northernArizona; you take one look--and instantly you lose all your formerstandards of comparison. You stand there gazing down the raw, red gulletof that great gosh-awful gorge, and you feel your...