GO WEST OLD
MAN, A Father's Journey across America with His
Son
by Max
Barnet
ISBN 1-882521-03-X, 144 pages, Softcover
List price $15.00
Reviews in Brief:
This is a touching and poignant travelogue of sights and emotions as a father
and son endure fifteen days of cross-country travel in a desperate effort to
re-establish their love. Amidst the majestic mountains, plains and rivers, the
real journey is across uncharted feelings between Harry and Danny. Both long to
know one another, but fear and pain obstruct their passage, as they both learn
that getting lost on this trip means more than just making a wrong turn. They
are lonely, even when together, and their hope is the only beacon to guide them
in this remarkably honest memoir.
William D. Bushnell
Reviewer for
Publishers Weekly
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Go West Old Man continues in the
great American literary tradition of philosophical travelogues, worthy of
sharing a shelf with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and
even On the Road. Harry's journey across America with his grown son
opens a dialogue as wide as the midwestern plains. The two generations, born
from vastly different Americas, can never be reconciled, but they can understand
each other. And in a disarmingly frank dialogue, Harry confronts his past, and
his assumptions about what the rest of his life holds. Throughout this
thoughtful account of a two-week trip, the American landscape, both awesome in
natural beauty, and garish and tacky in its exploitation, is itself a character
with which the reader must contend. Go West Old
Man is a satisfying, readable trip, written from
the heart.
Tom Groening,
Editor, The Republican Journal, Belfast,
Maine
The Dedication:
This book is dedicated to all fathers and sons who seek peace between
themselves, and to all mothers who seek to understand the dynamic between their
husbands and their sons.
Max Barnet
The Theme:
There must always be a struggle between father and son, while one aims at
power and the other at independence.
Samuel Johnson
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