The Beckoning
Publisher: IUniverse
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lincoln, NE
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 116
Description: This is the original and only hard copy edition. It is also a Kindle e- book.
Table of contents: title: At the end of America's Age of Innocence, just weeks before the murder of President John F. Kennedy,17-year old Lee Moffit is told by his father to leave their Stillwater, Oklahoma farm and never to return. With $40 and a German Luger pistol in his pocket, Lee roars across Route 66 on his motorcycle toward California and his dream of becoming a movie stuntman.; title: Following one misadventure after the next, Lee arrives in Venice Beach and is soon befriended by Iris Pond, a would-be hippie with literary ambitions and a troubled past. Lee's hope to live the American dream turns to despair and leads him to a life- defining moment.