books.google.com - We Americans love to look at ourselves. How we vote, where we work, what we think about church and school -- studying ourselves is a national pastime. What has been missing in all this self-examination, until now, is a book about the greatest national obsessions of all: the hobbies we pursue, the collections...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Banana_Sculptor_the_Purple_Lady_and.html?id=tFSw8Xywh-IC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Banana Sculptor, the Purple Lady, and the All-night Swimmer