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A Walking Guide

A Walking Guide

by Alan S . Cowell (Author)

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    Hardcover 2003

    $3.23
Synopsis

Diagnosed with a terminal nerve disorder, intrepid war journalist Joe Shelby embarks on a last attempt to scale England's highest mountain, a quest that tests his courage and forces him to come to terms with his illness. A first novel. 17,500 first printing.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 288
 Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: Aug 2003
ISBN 10: 0743244702
ISBN 13: 9780743244701

Media Reviews
Allen Pizzey Correspondent, CBS News There are few works of fiction about war correspondents about which war correspondents can read, look heavenwards and exult: Yes. Yes. You got it. Alan Cowell's A Walking Guide is such a book. Filled with finely sketched scenes and believable characters, A Walking Guide is more than a well-crafted tour of what narrator Joe Shelby calls ?a world where carnage and bloodlust freed us from petty considerations.' It is also a passage through another kind of hell, of a man facing a debilitating and potentially lethal illness more terrifying than any incoming fire. His attempt to come to terms with it and reconcile his love for two vastly different women is done on a journey that will leave the reader gasping at its insanity, audacity and beauty. Taut, at times both tender and brutal, this is a walk whose guide has been there and back and will take you where few would want to go any way but vicariously.