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The Next Better Place (Hardcover) by Michael C Keith
CONDITION Very GoodA BOOK by Michael C. Keith
CATEGORY Memoir
PUBLICATION Algonquin Books
EDITION
Hardcover - ISBN 9781565124363 [£10]
SYNOPSIS
In 1959, at the age of eleven, Michael Keith left a relatively stable life with his mother & sisters in Albany, New York, & surreptitiously set off for California with his irresponsible alcoholic father. For the rest of Michael's childhood, the two crisscrossed America, perpetually en route to someplace else. His memoir, told in the fresh, funny, world-wise voice of the young boy he once was, describes their bizarre encounters hitchhiking the nation's highways. In the rundown rooming houses & homeless missions where they hole up as Michael's father works odd jobs to make enough money for them to move on, or in the AA meetings they attend in every city for a decent doughnut, we glimpse a different America. Pushed onward by Michael's unceasing thirst for new adventures & his father's dreams of the next better place, the careworn twosome live far outside convention.
But despite their peculiar, often dysfunctional life, there is real love between this father & son, & they share the glorious freedom of the peripatetic life. That such happiness exists in a lonely marginal universe doesn't overshadow the fact that a Greyhound bus is the closest Michael comes to experiencing the idea of home. THE NEXT BETTER PLACE explores the fine line between wanderlust & compulsion, between running away & arriving, & leaves us with the understanding that the journey is often more powerful than the destination.
| Brand | Algonquin Books |
| Condition | Used |
| Product Code | 9.78E+12 |
| Weight | 0.3kg |