Confessions From the Road: Notes from a Wayfaring Stranger's Journal [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Pirtle III, Mr. Caleb

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ISBN 10: 1937569918 ISBN 13: 9781937569914

Casa editrice: Venture Galleries, 2018

Riassunto

I grew up in a world occupied by storytellers. Their stories were better than books. Their stories became books. After all, life is just one story piled on top of another with page numbers. In those days, storytellers did not know they were telling stories. They were simply carrying on a conversation. I never outgrew their stories. Nor did I ever stop listening to conversations that hopscotched their way along the side of a wayward road. The voices stay with me. So do the stories they told me. The voices may come from down the road apiece, at the counter of a diner, on the bar stool in a beer joint, sitting in the front yard of a mountain cabin, along a stretch of spun-sugar sand, back in the darkness of a pine thicket, amidst the downtown traffic jam of a city at sundown, or from the faint memories of a distant past. Everyone who crosses my path has a story to tell. It may be personal. It may be something that happened last week or the year before. It may have been handed down for more than a single generation. It may even be true, but who knows anymore? For decades I’ve collected the stories I hear and can’t forget those whose names are often long forgotten. But at one time in my life, they came my way, and I wrote down their confessions from the road.

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Caleb Pirtle III is the author of more than seventy-five books, including the acclaimed Lincoln Ambrose series of historical thrillers set against the backdrop of World War II: Secrets of the Dead, Conspiracy of Lies, Night Side of Dark, and Place of Skulls. His historical novel about the discovery of oil in East Texas during the 1930s, Back Side of a Blue Moon, recently won the Beverly Hills Book Award for Historical Fiction Southwest and received the Best of Texas Book Award for Historical Fiction/Small Town. Pirtle grew up in the oil fields of Kilgore and is a journalism graduate. He became the first student at The University of Texas to win the William Randolph Hearst Award for feature writing. His work at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram won several awards from both Associated Press and Texas Headliner’s. When Governor John Connally established the Texas Tourist Develop agency, he hired Pirtle to serve as TTDA’s first communications director. Pirtle served for almost a decade as travel editor for Southern Living Magazine and later spent twenty-five years as editorial and production director for a custom publishing company in Dallas. Pirtle has traveled many back roads during his career as newspaperman, magazine editor, and author. His collection of people and their stories has been published in a memoir of sorts, The Man Who Talks to Strangers. He writes about those whose paths he crossed – from the homeless to celebrities, from country music stars to death row inmates, from farmers who struck it rich overnight when oil erupted to farmers who dug for oil and only found dirt and a few worms at the bottom of the hole. As he had learned while writing numerous travel and historical nonfiction books, “What happens is never as important as the people who make it happen.” His XIT: The American Cowboy, The Unending Season, Spirit of America, Echoes from Forgotten Streets, and The Grandest Day were all award winners. Pirtle has written two psychological thrillers, Last Deadly Lie, the chilling tale of a church torn apart by greed and lust, and Friday Nights Don’t Last Forever, the story of a star high school quarterback whose world crumbles around him during the ills and evils of college football recruiting. He and his wife Linda launched Here Comes A Mystery, has supported indie authors by promoting more than six thousand books. It is found at calebandlindapirtle.com.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Venture Galleries
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1937569918
• ISBN 13: 9781937569914
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 334
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