Sourtoe Cocktail Club - The Yukon Odyssey of a Father Son in Search of a Mummified Human Toe

Informationen zum Autor Ron Franscell is a rising true-crime figure, a seasoned traveler and a Texan. Ron has ridden the wide range between journalism, fiction and nonfiction with extraordinary success. Ron's third book, an intimate nonfiction originally entitled Fall: The Rape and Murder of Innocence in a Small Town, was published in January 2007 and reissued in paperback in 2008 as The Darkest Night, established him as one of the most provocative new voices in narrative nonfiction. Klappentext A father-and-son love story set against epic backdrops and overlooked places"" After Ron Franscell's divorce, he feared he was the continuing link in a long chain of estranged fathers. But when the author and his teenage son embark on a road trip to the Yukon to seek out a macabre cocktail containing an amputated human toe, they unwittingly begin a journey into their own past, present and future. "The Sourtoe Cocktail Club" is a true-life love story about fathers and sons, set against epic backdrops and overlooked places. It is also a road book that attempts to answer, for one father and son, a pivotal life question: "Where does the road go?" Zusammenfassung A father-and-son love story set against epic backdrops and overlooked places

Product details

• Authors: Ron Franscell, Franscell Ron
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.2011
• EAN: 9780762771561
• ISBN: 978-0-7627-7156-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Travel > Travel guides; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Travel & holiday guides, Memoirs, TRAVEL / United States / General, United States of America, USA, Travel and holiday guides