Idiot Wind
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addiction
addiction memoir
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Bob Dylan
Bukowski
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COP=United Kingdom
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drug addiction
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Product details
- ISBN 9781786897367
- Weight: 489g
- Dimensions: 144 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2019
- Publisher: Canongate Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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In 1987 a massive snowstorm hits New York as Peter Kaldheim flees the city, owing drug debts to a dealer who is no stranger to casual violence.
Leaving behind his chaotic past, Kaldheim hits the road, living hand-to-mouth in flop-houses, pan-handling with his fellow itinerants. As he makes his way across America in search of a new life, the harsh reality of vagrancy forces him to face up to his past, from his time in Rikers prison, to relationships lost and lamented.
Kaldheim hikes and buses through an America rarely seen, and his encounters with a disparate collection of characters instils in him a new empathy and wisdom, as he journeys on a road less travelled.
Peter Kaldheim graduated in English and Classics from Dartmouth, before going on to work in publishing (as head copy editor at Harcourt then acquiring editor at Van Nostrand Reinhold), but an addiction to drugs caused his life to come apart, landing him in Rikers Island jail after he sold cocaine to an undercover drug squad agent. He lived in Lindenhurst, Long Island, where he fished for fluke on charter boats out of Montauk. Peter died in 2023.
