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Skulls & Roses: An Epic of the Road Inspired By The Music of The Grateful Dead

Skulls & Roses: An Epic of the Road Inspired By The Music of The Grateful Dead - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Sea GudinskiPublish date:2024-03-02Pages:424
Language:EnglishPublisher:Art of Telling PublicationsISBN-13:9781734844757ISBN-10:1734844752UPC:9781734844757Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, LiteraryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.3603Product ID:SCT38EKRE6

Born in turn-of-the-century Denver, Colorado, Jack Jones is a hard-traveling, heavy-drinking, crooked-gambling womanizer with an affinity for Rocky Mountain gin and the path of least resistance. In 1925, at the height of prohibition, Jack hops off a boxcar in the bustling Oklahoma oil boomtown of Tulsa after five years out wandering along the road less traveled. In search of the nearest speakeasy and some low-stakes poker, Jack stumbles across a far more lucrative opportunity when he meets bootlegging soda-jerk Joe McDunlop and his amiable Irish sidekick Shannon Todd. However, when Jack falls for the young and pretty Bertha Steele, the county sheriff's daughter, and comes face-to-face with treachery, his life of quick gains and repose quickly becomes upended, sending him upon a long, strange trip full of fifty years worth of fated misadventures in early 20th-century America.

Set in Hobohemia during the same era when Jack London, Woody Guthrie, and Jack Kerouac took to the road, this classic retelling of a rake's progress provides a captivating window into a lost and forgotten time and the culture of those uncompromising devotees of freedom and wanderlust. Riddled with harrowing tales of swindles and jailbreaks, windfalls and pitfalls, Skulls & Roses examines the soul of a charismatic anti-hero while bringing to life the most-loved characters of the Grateful Dead's repertoire.


Language:EnglishPublisher:Art of Telling PublicationsISBN-13:9781734844757ISBN-10:1734844752UPC:9781734844757Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, LiteraryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.94 inchesWeight:1.3603Product ID:SCT38EKRE6
Publisher: Art of Telling Publications

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