The Journey of Simon McKeever
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- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
4 March 2025
Summary
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Former oil worker, untutored philosopher, dreamer, man of laughter possessed with an indomitable spirit, seventy-three-year-old Simon McKeever runs away from a shabby state-run home for the elderly in Sacramento and hitch-hikes a ride to Los Angeles, in search of a cure for his arthritis. In the course of his personal odyssey on the road, McKeever – a modern working-class Everyman – will find something much more precious than a medical miracle: a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780714550800 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0714550809 |
| Author: | Albert Maltz |
| Publisher: | Alma Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Alma Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 4 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 232g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 22mm |
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I can’t tell you how excited I am about Simon McKeever * Henry Fonda *A book that will help others on the road of life. There’s pathos and humor here. * Kirkus Review *In this tightly plotted short novel, Maltz achieves an effect all too rare in current fiction, an affirmation of faith in man’s courage, man’s will to put things right in a badly off-centre world. * New York Times *An appealing and heart-warming story of the essential dignity of man. * New York Herald Tribune *
About The Author
Albert Maltz
Albert Maltz (1908–85) was a prizewinning American playwright, fiction writer and screenwriter. His novel The Cross and the Arrow, about the German resistance to the Nazi regime, was distributed to 150,000 American soldiers during the Second World War. He worked on a number of films, including Casablanca, until he was blacklisted during the period of Cold War anti-Communist hysteria. He is best remembered today for his novels A Tale of One January and The Journey of Simon McKeever.
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