Imagine a grunge nort Jersey version of John Mc Phee\'s classic The Pine Barrens and you\'ll get some idea of the idiosyncratic, fact-filled, and highly original work that is Robert Sullivan\'s The Meadowlands.
He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and two children..
About the Author: Robert Sullivan has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, Outside, Cond Nast Traveler, and Vogue, where he is a contributing editor.
Robert Sullivan proves himself to be this fragile yet amazingly resilient region\'s perfect expolorer, historian, archaeologist, and comic bard.
Just five miles west of New York City, this vilified, half-developed, half-untamed, much dumped-on, and sometimes odiferous tract of swampland is home to rare birds and missing bodies, tranquil marshes and a major sports arena, burning garbage dumps and corporate headquarters, the remains of the original Penn Station--and maybe, just, maybe, of the late Jimmy Hoffa.
Imagine a grunge nort Jersey version of John Mc Phee\'s classic The Pine Barrens and you\'ll get some idea of the idiosyncratic, fact-filled, and highly original work that is Robert Sullivan\'s The Meadowlands
