Jack and Barry

Simon Petherick

ISBN 10: 1911673386 / ISBN 13: 9781911673385

Published by TSB Can Of Worms, 2023

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind. Seller Inventory # wbs5887534629

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 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.

About the Author: Simon Petherick is the author of 4 novels - the 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 film scripts. 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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Jack and Barry
Publisher: TSB Can Of Worms
Publication Date: 2023
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Like New