Jack and Barry - Couverture souple

Petherick, Simon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1948585677 ISBN 13 : 9781948585675

Editeur : Leapfrog Press, 2023

Synopsis

"A poignant what-if tale that brings it all back." KEVIN RING, BEAT SCENE

It's December 1964 in Paradise Valley, Arizona. Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, who has just lost the Presidential election to Lyndon B Johnson, is driving alone one evening back to the house he shares with his wife, Peggy. On one side of the road, he sees a figure trudging back towards town and he stops to offer him a lift.

So begins a highly unusual and emotional fictional friendship between Goldwater and the author, Jack Kerouac.

Over the course of the next two days, the two men engage in a strange, wary exploration of each other's lives: one, an ebullient but bruised political animal; the other, a weary and almost defeated literary icon whose totemic novel, On The Road, was first published seven years before.

Such an unlikely pairing brings about a soulful exploration of man's ambition and the bitter fruit it can deliver, set against the dramatic mountainous landscape of 1960s Arizona.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Simon Petherick is the author of four novels -- The Last Good Man, The Damnation Of Peter Pan, English Arcadia and Like Fire Unbound -- as well as a number of non-fiction titles and several filmscripts. He originally worked in London as a government writer at the UK's Central Office of Information and subsequently worked in both Europe and the Baltic States as a communications specialist. He has spent time in the United States, particularly in the southwestern states of Arizona and California. He currently lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Leapfrog Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1948585677
• ISBN 13: 9781948585675
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible