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Author Tobar, Héctor, 1963- author.

Title The last great road bum / Héctor Tobar.

Publication Info. New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F TOBAR, H.    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F TOBAR    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  FICTION TOBAR    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  FIC TOBAR    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F TOBAR    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  F TOBAR    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  TOBAR, HECTOR    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F TOBAR    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Fiction  FIC-TOBAR    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC TOBAR, H    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xii, 396 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Note Maps on endpages.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a 'road bum,' an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born into a childhood of middle-class contentment in Urbana, Illinois and died fighting with guerillas in Central America. With these facts, acclaimed novelist and journalist Héctor Tobar set out to write what would become The Last Great Road Bum. A decade ago, Tobar came into possession of the personal writings of the late Joe Sanderson, which chart Sanderson's freewheeling course across the known world, from Illinois to Jamaica, to Vietnam, to Nigeria, to El Salvador - a life determinedly an adventure, ending in unlikely, anonymous heroism. The Last Great Road Bum is the great American novel Joe Sanderson never could have written, but did truly live - a fascinating, timely hybrid of fiction and nonfiction that only a master of both like Héctor Tobar could pull off."--Provided by publisher.
Subject Sanderson, Joe -- Fiction.
Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.
Wayfaring life -- United States -- Fiction.
Wayfaring life -- El Salvador -- Fiction.
Wayfaring life -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Adventure fiction.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Road fiction.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9780374183424 (hardcover)
0374183422 (hardcover)
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