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2 Formats: CD
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2 Formats: Library CD
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ISBN: 9781668178874
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ISBN: 9781668178867
| Runtime: | 2.37 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Looking out past the barren landscape he was sure that just beyond the mountains in the distance he would find what had been lost. He believed many things that weren’t true.
Tom Ryder is a writer and a reluctant film star, and, he is dying.
In 1951, Tom won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Highway Cross. Despite his claims that it was just a story, many believed it to be an autobiographical account of something tragically lost in youth. Together with his dog Josie, Tom travels down deserted Western highways and stops beside makeshift memorials that have been left by the dead’s loved ones and friends. For years, he has kept a notebook with the names of the dead, some of their stories and what song was playing on his truck’s radio when he found them.
Tom Ryder wanders open highways in search of something he’s sure is just beyond those mountains in the distance.
Author
Author Bio: Michael Katakis
Michael Katakis has authored a number of books, including Despatches, The Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial, and, as editor, Sacred Trusts: Essays on Stewardship and Responsibility and Excavating Voices: Listening to Photographs of Native Americans. His writing and photography have been collected by a wide range of institutions, including the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Library in London, and Stanford University’s Special Collections Department. In 1999, Michael was elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and in 2001 he and his wife’s exhibition, A Time and Place Before War, opened at the Geographical Society in London. The British Library acquired Michael’s photographic work for their collection in 2008. The library is now the repository for his entire body of work. He lives in France and the United States with his wife, anthropologist Kris Hardin.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Runtime: | 2.37 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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