Storm Country: A Journey Through the Heart of America

by Pete Davies

Welcome to the great Plains--where tornadoes convert barns to matchsticks in seconds and generations of work can be destroyed in a single day. Two years ago, English novelist Pete Davies decided to search for the soul of America's heartland. Storm Country is the result--written with the same black humor that made his Last Election and Dollarville cult favorites.

260 pages, Hardcover

First published April 6, 1993

About the author

Pete Davies is best known as the author of All Played Out, the classic account of the Italian World Cup in 1990 that's been continuously in print ever since it hit the bestseller list. He's also the author of three novels, and eight other works of non-fiction.

Davies has written about sport and politics, history and science, travel and weather. He's flown in hurricanes over the Gulf of Mexico and off the Carolinas, chased tornadoes on the Great Plains, and followed stories around the world from Central America to East Africa, from India to Japan, from Hong Kong to the high Arctic.

Davies was born in 1959 and lives in West Yorkshire, England. He was prolifically productive in the 1990's, but after American Road came out in 2002, he disappeared from view. In deteriorating health, he was told in 2006 that he had two years left to live.

Davies defied that diagnosis, and in 2017 - after fifteen years of silence - he published his novel Playlist. A wildly inventive comedy, Playlist marks a stunning and unexpected return to print for one of the most original voices of his generation.

Reviews

[Ian Howells · Rating 5 out of 5]

Exemplary journalism and beautifully written. A brilliant, moving book