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The Journey of Simon McKeever
By Albert Maltz
ISBN: 9780714550800
256 pages
RRP: Original price was: £8.99.£7.19Current price is: £7.19.
Former oil worker, untutored philosopher, dreamer, man of laughter possessed with an indomitable spirit, seventy-three-year-old Simon McKeever runs away from a shabby state-run home for the elderly in Sacramento and hitch-hikes a ride to Los Angeles, in search of a cure for his arthritis. In the course of his personal odyssey on the road, McKeever – a modern working-class Everyman – will find something much more precious than a medical miracle: a realization that will enable him to bequeath to humankind his hard-won personal truth and thereby “move the world one inch forward”.
In this technically flawless novel, now reprinted for the first time after its original American publication in 1949, Maltz elevates literature of the common man to high art, providing a life-affirming, enduring message of ordinary courage and heroism.
Contains an introduction by Patrick Chura, Distinguished Professor, University of Akron
Find out more about award-winning short story writer and respected novelist Albert Maltz
REVIEWS
The novel brilliantly describes the angst of the aging process for someone who wants to continue to be a productive member of society
People's World
I can’t tell you how excited I am about Simon McKeever
Henry Fonda
a book that will help others on the road of life. There’s pathos and humor here.
Kirkus Review
In this tightly plotted short novel, Maltz achieves an effect all too rare in current fiction, an affirmation of faith in man’s courage, man’s will to put things right in a badly off-centre world.
New York Times
An appealing and heart-warming story of the essential dignity of man
New York Herald Tribune
