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More Towels is a riotous and revealing journey through the music world as seen through the mind of a restless young musician.
font face="Verdana" color="#000080" class="fsx03">One of four younger brothers of a gifted and highly successful jazz pianist, our less exceptional protagonist begins his peculiar journey of discovery at the age of seventeen, leaving his home in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains to travel with a laughably bad self-contained show band. br />
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As he travels back and forth across the continent with a series of mostly unremarkable bands - bands with names such as "Love, Peace and Soul" and "Natural Feelin" - he encounters a world wherein talent is far less essential | |  | | Ways of Leaving
Infused with empathy and compassion, bristling with humor, Ways of Leaving explores the impulses and actions of a troubled man whose struggles with isolation, despair and desire illuminate the fierce yearning for a sense of purpose that characterizes the human condition.
div id="book-summary">Chase Stoller’s life is crumbling. He just lost his job, his wife Jennifer has filed for divorce, and now his brother Aaron wants him to return to Pennsylvania and help care for their ailing father.
When he arrives at his brother’s house, years of repressed rage float to the surface—along with two married women, one virtual church, several bottles of scotch, one schizophrenic sister, five helpings of Brussels sprouts, three boxes of purloined panties, and a gun-wielding husband with a grudge. But Chase’s greatest challenge comes when his |
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