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The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings
The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings | Jan Harold Brunvand
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The book that launched America's urban legend obsession! The Vanishing Hitchhiker was Professor Brunvand's first popular book on urban legends, and it remains a classic. The culmination of twenty years of collection and research, this book is a must-have for urban legend lovers.
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Mistermandolin
Mistermandolin
The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings | Jan Harold Brunvand
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Brunvand‘s been ploughing this furrow for quite a while now, proving that folkloristics can be...well, fun. We‘ve all heard the story: lonely motorist picks up rain-drenched hitchhiker on a country road in the middle of a stormy night. Ten miles further down the road he turns to offer him a cigarette and the guy‘s gone. Brumvand examines the richness and complexity of urban myths in a down-to-earth and accessible style. Social history at its best.

BookwormM Would you class this as short stories? Sounds like something hubby would enjoy but he will only read short stories 3y
Mistermandolin @BookwormM Not really short stories per se. The book contains analyses of testimonies and testimony-extracts describing ostensibly non-fictional encounters. 3y
BookwormM Thanks might see if the library have this that way nothing lost if he doesn‘t get on with it 3y
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breemariegarcia
breemariegarcia
The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings | Jan Harold Brunvand
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I absolutely love when secondhand books are written in. I like to imagine what the other owners were thinking. Like this. Did they like the name Xenia? Is that a name of a relative? Did they know Xenia and this is just a step in their revenge plot against her? So many options.

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