{"product_id":"jack-and-barry-paperback","title":"Jack and Barry - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSimon Petherick\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A poignant what-if tale that brings it all back.\" KEVIN RING, BEAT SCENE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's December 1964 in Paradise Valley, Arizona. Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, who has just lost the Presidential election to Lyndon B Johnson, is driving alone one evening back to the house he shares with his wife, Peggy. On one side of the road, 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, \u003ci\u003eOn The Road\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 the dramatic mountainous landscape of 1960s Arizona.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimon Petherick is the author of four novels -- \u003ci\u003eThe Last Good Man, The Damnation Of Peter Pan, English Arcadia \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLike Fire Unbound \u003c\/i\u003e-- as well as a number of non-fiction titles and several filmscripts. He originally worked in London as a government writer at the UK's Central Office of Information and subsequently worked in both Europe and the Baltic States as a communications specialist. He has spent time in the United States, particularly in the southwestern states of Arizona and California. He currently lives in London. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.8 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 06, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42697321414719,"sku":"9781948585675","price":17.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/cbc3eaa69fe849dc4d0031b20e54f45d.webp?v=1765009124","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/jack-and-barry-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}