Silk Road: The Journey
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ISBN10: 1514405369
ISBN13: 9781514405369
Publisher: Xlibris Corp
Published: Oct 29 2015
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781514405369
Publisher: Xlibris Corp
Published: Oct 29 2015
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a bohemian odyssey set in the 1960s, a young man just out of college backpacks around the world, sampling hash, sex, and illumination as the Vietnam War rages. . . . A rich, exotic journey that will leave you reaching for your passport. Kirkus Review It is 1966, and the narrator and his roommate are leaving their California college town in order to hitchhike to New York City and join their friends who are already there. So begins what will become a 20,000 mile journey of loss and redemption. Silk Road: The Journey is a tale of travel, adventure, and a young man's coming of age, evolving under unexpected and, at times, the most unusual of circumstances. Here, the changing landscape becomes an active - although not always benign - participant in the story. Above all, the novel is a chronicle of impermanence, in which the narrative - on one level a series of adventures in which places and events change, and bonds between people are formed, developed and severed becomes, on a deeper level, an examination of transience, as the protagonist searches for meaning and permanence to the farthest ends of the earth, but is able to find it only when he returns home. A spirited, free-wheeling and ultimately sobering story of irreverent and reckless youth.
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