Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Kaldheim, Peter, author.

Title Idiot wind : a memoir / Peter Kaldheim.

Publication Info. Endinburgh, Scotland : Canongate Books Ltd, 2019.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B KALDHEIM PETER K    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Biographies  BIOG KALDHEIM, PETER    Check Shelf
Description 341 pages ; 23 cm
Summary "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 instills in him a new empathy and wisdom, as he journeys on a road less traveled."--Amazon.
Subject Kaldheim, Peter.
Tramps -- United States.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Tramps. (OCoLC)fst01154474
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term Since 1980
Genre/Form Biographies.
Other Form: ebook version : 9781786897374
ISBN 1786897369 (hardcover)
9781786897367 (hardcover)
9781786897374 (ePub ebook)
-->
Add a Review