Binding: Paperback
Description: One of the Los Angeles Times Top 10 California Books of 2020. One of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Fiction Books from 2020. Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the Joyce Carol Oates prize. One of Exile in Bookville's Favorite Books of 2020. In The Last Great Road Bum H ctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana Illinois who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was in his words a road bum an adventurer and a storyteller belonging to no place people or set of ideas. He was born into a childhood of middle - class contentment in Urbana Illinois and died fighting with guerillas in Central America. With these facts acclaimed novelist and journalist H ctor Tobar set out to write what would become The Last Great Road Bum. A decade ago Tobar came into possession of the personal writings of the late Joe Sanderson which chart Sanderson's freewheeling course across the known world from Illinois to Jamaica to Vietnam to Nigeria to El Salvador a life determinedly an adventure ending in unlikely anonymous heroism. The Last Great Road Bum is the great American novel Joe Sanderson never could have written but did truly live a fascinating timely hybrid of fiction and nonfiction that only a master of both like H ctor Tobar could pull off.
Title: The Last Great Road Bum A Novel
Author(s): Tobar Hector
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250798695
Pages: 416 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/3/2021
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction