The Ride Home (A Surf Novel)
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (691 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B001TK42PO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 168 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This book is in its Second Edition, as of 12/2010. Key words for readers in my target audience: surfing, depression, suicide, polysubstance addiction/abuse, clinical psychology, domestic violence, child abuse, self-harm, fiction. A cast of unforgettable characters tell their deepest and darkest secrets in this important contemporary story. This book is the flagship of Ray's quiver. The tone to this novel is dark. *All titles available on Kindle and exclusively in paperback by ! Thank you to those who helped make The Ride Home and Pig-skinned #1! Many more titles are on the way, check back on ! BUY THIS BOOK AND READ IT. 6."The Tongueless Language" (Southern Anti-war Poetry). Book Three coming soon, 5/201
From the Author1,296 out of 960,000 plus titles & nine bestsellers.
many voices, one landscape I am foreign to surf culture, but this book could have been set in any context - universal themes of addiction, love both platonic and erotic, play out around the accidental death of a friend.One of the more striking features of the novel is that it is told mostly in first person, but from multiple points of view. Some chapters are out front with it, entitled with the author's name. Some are cryptic until partway through the chapter when you realize, based on context or the text itself, which of the novel's characters are narrating. The compelling aspect is that each of the characters has dif. The Ride Home Did not enjoy this book at all. I ordered it because it was written by the stepson of Pat Conroy and thought maybe we had another great author but unfortunately not.. Peter Middlebrooks said Awful. Absolutely awful.. I rarely write reviews, but this book definitely deserves another negative review to offset those 5-star reviews (oh, now I see, the 5-star reviews were written by the author through his various fake Amazon profiles and his friends!). The characters are all miserable excuses for human beings, and I was disgusted almost to the point of being nauseated by the time I finished this book. I also found the author's obsession with venereal diseases to be bizarre. I assume that the good Doctor is a mental health professional, and that he has plenty of fodder for coming up with such dysfunctional char