Description
"A poignant what-if tale that brings it all back." KEVIN RING, BEAT SCENEIt'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.
Author: Simon Petherick
Publisher: Leapfrog Press
Published: 06/06/2023
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.80h x 4.90w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781948585675
ISBN10: 1948585677
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Humorous | General
- Fiction | Small Town & Rural
- Fiction | Satire
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.
Author: Simon Petherick
Publisher: Leapfrog Press
Published: 06/06/2023
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.80h x 4.90w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781948585675
ISBN10: 1948585677
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Humorous | General
- Fiction | Small Town & Rural
- Fiction | Satire
About the Author
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.