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Jack and Barry
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- Book 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 justlost the Presidential election to Lyndon B Johnson, is driving alone one evening back to the house heshares with his wife, Peggy. On one side of theroad, 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 thedramatic mountainous landscape of 1960s Arizona.
- 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.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781911673385
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- TSB, (09 August 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 128
- Weight
- 235 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 138 x 205 mm
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