Motel Nirvana

Motel Nirvana
Melanie McGrath

Now available in ebook format. ‘Motel Nirvana’ is Melanie McGrath’s first published book.A book about the New Age movement and its American heartland. It concerns the author's travels around the south-western United States of Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, and her encounters with some of that region's most unusual communities and individuals.‘Motel Nirvana’ won the 1996 John Llewellyn Rhys ‘Mail on Sunday’ prize for the best new British writer under 35.

MELANIE McGRATH

Motel Nirvana

Dreaming of the New Age in the American Desert

Dedication (#ulink_3030a41c-be64-50f2-80a7-c0c8aa8f32bc)

For Paul and my mother, Margaret

Epigraph (#ulink_f70545eb-7ab1-5909-a2ca-640089d3fe94)

‘What do I know of life?

What of myself?

I know not even my own

work past or present;

Dim ever-shifting guesses

of it spread before me,

Of newer better worlds,

their mighty parturition

Mocking, perplexing me.’

WALT WHITMAN,

‘On the Last Thoughts

of Columbus’

Contents

Cover (#u887e23f2-83b6-5fea-992d-f92f29c11822)

Title Page (#u6c8f08d6-ec4a-5631-b287-6c0da15e83c2)

Dedication (#ua3cf8abc-6cfc-54c5-8f11-919bdfc957c6)

Epigraph (#u7d6dbf46-ac8f-55f1-8e5e-00cc21d7f598)

Prophets (#uec7f4ae2-8a63-509e-abbb-3629e90c2acf)

Heading West (#u15371aaa-c1a3-54d4-b508-00362ec73970)

Getting Off (#uad8b4b58-9e02-527a-9116-25aad71ed1cc)

There’s a Seeker Born Every Minute (#u64de7fde-8133-5fb2-8d88-869f0f6c4169)

Highway 666 (#litres_trial_promo)

Postcard Home (#litres_trial_promo)

God’s Country (#litres_trial_promo)

The Grander Purpose (#litres_trial_promo)

Two Cities (#litres_trial_promo)

Standing People (#litres_trial_promo)

The Death Cult (#litres_trial_promo)

La Jornada (#litres_trial_promo)

The Firm (#litres_trial_promo)

Motels (#litres_trial_promo)

Love Junky (#litres_trial_promo)

Driving (#litres_trial_promo)

White Light, Greenbacks and Redskins (#litres_trial_promo)

Prozac Dreaming (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Praise (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

Prophets (#ulink_1c31eb9a-9e22-567b-be1d-27fd6fc3a855)

‘Eat your way to consciousness’