Road-Book AmericaIn this wide ranging and sophisticated study, Rowland Sherrill explores the resurgence and transformation of an old literary form the picaresque narrative into a new form that he shows to be both responsive and instructive to late twentieth century American life. Road Book America discloses how the old picaresque tradition, embodied in such novels as Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, opens to include a number of new American