GO WEST OLD
MAN, A Father's Journey across America with His
Son List price $15.00 This is a touching and poignant travelogue of sights and emotions as a father and son endure fifteen days of cross-country travel in a desperate effort to re-establish their love. Amidst the majestic mountains, plains and rivers, the real journey is across uncharted feelings between Harry and Danny. Both long to know one another, but fear and pain obstruct their passage, as they both learn that getting lost on this trip means more than just making a wrong turn. They are lonely, even when together, and their hope is the only beacon to guide them in this remarkably honest memoir. William D. Bushnell Reviewer for Publishers Weekly Read an Excerpt Go West Old Man continues in the
great American literary tradition of philosophical travelogues, worthy of
sharing a shelf with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and
even On the Road. Harry's journey across America with his grown son
opens a dialogue as wide as the midwestern plains. The two generations, born
from vastly different Americas, can never be reconciled, but they can understand
each other. And in a disarmingly frank dialogue, Harry confronts his past, and
his assumptions about what the rest of his life holds. Throughout this
thoughtful account of a two-week trip, the American landscape, both awesome in
natural beauty, and garish and tacky in its exploitation, is itself a character
with which the reader must contend. Go West Old
Man is a satisfying, readable trip, written from
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