Hitchhiking with Larry David: An Accidental Tourist's Summer of Self-Discovery in Martha's Vineyard
Like Larry David’s TV shows, Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, this curious memoir is witty, boasts an assortment of offbeat characters, and offers just a hint of surrealism. While summering on Martha’s Vineyard after a failed relationship, Dolman was hitchhiking when Larry David, of all people, stopped and picked him up. They had a lengthy, wandering, even occasionally profound conversation, and then David dropped Dolman at his destination. That appeared to be the end of Dolman’s encounter with David, whose TV series, Dolman was embarrassed to admit, he had never seen, not one episode. But as the summer wore on, they kept running into each other, and a weird sort of friendship grew. It’s difficult to categorize this book. On the one hand, it’s a nifty memoir that allows us to see a side of a celebrity we don’t normally see; on another, it’s a story about Dolman’s emotional and spiritual quest to find himself; on still another, it’s a portrait of an unusual friendship, the kind that would fit right in, for example, on Seinfeld. A quirky and frequently thought-provoking memoir. --David Pitt