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romcm's review against another edition
5.0
I loved this SO MUCH. I didn’t want it to end. Right up there with Kerouac and Bukowski.
sarahetolive's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
tommooney's review against another edition
5.0
Ah, I really loved this unique memoir. Peter Kaldheim graduated from Dartmouth, got married and had a successful career in publishing. But, by 37, he'd been divorced, widowed, professionally disgraced, jailed and was addicted to cocaine.
On a snowy Superbowl night 1987 - and owing his dealer a cool $2k - he ran away from it all. What follows is this extraordinary memoir of tramping across the US. Hitchhiking, jumping freight trains, selling blood, flop houses and food stamps - Kaldheim spent four months doing it all, always seeking his personal redemption.
This is a book which owes a lot to two Jack's - Kerouac and London - whose stories of the road are classics of American literature and, concerning Kerouac in particular, a hero to Kaldheim.
By turns tender, funny, tough and honest, Kaldheim has written a book which shows us the best and worst of life on the road in the good ol' US of A.
On a snowy Superbowl night 1987 - and owing his dealer a cool $2k - he ran away from it all. What follows is this extraordinary memoir of tramping across the US. Hitchhiking, jumping freight trains, selling blood, flop houses and food stamps - Kaldheim spent four months doing it all, always seeking his personal redemption.
This is a book which owes a lot to two Jack's - Kerouac and London - whose stories of the road are classics of American literature and, concerning Kerouac in particular, a hero to Kaldheim.
By turns tender, funny, tough and honest, Kaldheim has written a book which shows us the best and worst of life on the road in the good ol' US of A.
georgie_mb's review against another edition
5.0
*kindly gifted to me by Canongate*
I was completely absorbed into this as soon as I started reading it! Peter’s story is inspiring, but also shows how far someone can fall off the path they are trying to take.
Once he hits the road, I was really rooting for him as he started to change his life around, and I found that this was really easy to put down and start up again thanks to his easy writing style.
Definitely not a book I would normally pick up, but one I’m glad I did!
I was completely absorbed into this as soon as I started reading it! Peter’s story is inspiring, but also shows how far someone can fall off the path they are trying to take.
Once he hits the road, I was really rooting for him as he started to change his life around, and I found that this was really easy to put down and start up again thanks to his easy writing style.
Definitely not a book I would normally pick up, but one I’m glad I did!
repixpix's review against another edition
1.0
Correcto, bien escrito, con algunos detalles "no muy vistos" y, aún así, no me ha interesado nada.
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