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Ed Nelson author
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Category:
Action/Thriller
Publisher: Eastern Shore Publishing
Type: Fiction
Pages: 526
Copyright: 2019
ISBN-13: 9781733119016
Price: $299.00 (eBook)
Coming of age and winning fame and fortune in the movies, along with action and adventure.
Bank robbery, bull riding in the rodeo, a western movie, rustlers, among other events, occur as young Rick is on a cross-country trip, hitchhiking from a small Ohio town to California. This alternate history is of what should have been rather than what has been.
With wit and humor and no teenage angst, we follow a young man’s coming of age in the late 1950s. Starting in the summer before his freshman year, it follows him through his high school life, where he learns golf is his game. He finds fame and fortune as an inventor and wealth in Hollywood as he searches for a girlfriend. Wealth and fame prove far easier than girls.
The songs, movies, and books of the 1950s and 60s are nostalgic to some. The action and adventure thrill others. All readers enjoy the realistic flow of life, give or take a lie or two.
Follow Rick from the excitement of his summer to the dullness of high school life while he proves that school isn’t always dull.
Excerpt
“Your homework for your first day of English class, due tomorrow, is one on your summer vacation,” said Miss Bales.
This should be interesting. Do I tell the truth or make up the usual crap? We went to the beach on Lake Erie or to Columbus to the zoo.
I should explain why I am even thinking of making something up. I have proof of what happened, but I don’t know if I want all the nonsense that will go with it when it comes out. It will become public anyway after that last bit in Philadelphia, so I might as well go for it.
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