Publisher's Synopsis
" A poignant what-if tale that brings it all back "
Kevin Ring, BEAT SCENE
It's December 1964 in Paradise Valley, Arizona. Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, who has justlost the Presidential election to Lyndon B Johnson, is driving alone one evening back to the house heshares with his wife, Peggy. On one side of theroad, he sees a figure trudging back towards town and he stops to offer him a lift.
So begins a highly unusual and emotional fictional friendship between Goldwater and the author, Jack Kerouac. Over the course of the next two days, the two men engage in a strange, wary exploration of each other's lives: one, an ebullient but bruised political animal; the other, a weary and almost defeated literary icon whose totemic novel, On The Road, was first published seven years before. Such an unlikely pairing brings about a soulful exploration of man's ambition and the bitter fruit it can deliver, set against thedramatic mountainous landscape of 1960s Arizona.
