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Hank Stuever

Reviewed by Shawn Badgley, Fri., July 16, 2004

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Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere

by Hank Stuever

(Holt, $24)

The former Statesman writer and Pulitzer Prize-winner does the kind of writing we'll always need: funny, fascinating stories of people and places. He'll be at BookPeople on Monday, July 19, 7pm, and we should go listen to him read some. For more, see Litera listings.

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