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The Journey of Simon McKeever
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Former oil worker, untutored philosopher, dreamer, and 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...
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The Journey of Simon McKeever
A rediscovered gem written by one of the Hollywood Ten, who were blacklisted for their involvement with the Communist Party USA. Contains an introduction by Patrick Chura, Distinguished Professor, University of Akron.
A rediscovered gem written by one of the Hollywood Ten, who were blacklisted for their involvement with the Communist Party USA. Contains an introduction by Patrick Chura, Distinguished Professor, University of Akron.
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Description
Former oil worker, untutored philosopher, dreamer, and 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 realisation that will enable him to bequeath to humankind his hard-won personal truth and thereby "move the world one inch forward".
In this technically flawless novel, now reprinted for the first time after its original American publication in 1949, Albert Maltz elevates literature of the common man to high art, providing a life-affirming, enduring message of ordinary courage and heroism.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780714550800
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 24 October 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Alma Books Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 232g
Pages: 256
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About the Author
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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