Rose, Daniel Asa
Truth or Consequences : improbable adventures, a near-death experience, and unexpected redemption in the New Mexico desert Daniel Asa Rose. - Albuquerque High Road Books 2023 - xv, 276 pages ; 24 cm
Contents
preface
Part I. Winter 2010: Forty years later
Part II. Two minutes later
Part III.Two months later
Epilogue
"At sixty, Daniel Asa Rose was a successful Massachusetts novelist, memoirist, and columnist for Esquire, GQ, Washington Post Book World and elsewhere, when, out of the blue (but not really), his wife filed for divorce. Before he slips completely into the cocktail of depression, doubt, self-loathing and anger that he mixes for himself, his lifelong friend Tony calls with a proposition: a trip back to the place where, forty years before, their hippy college kid road trip had come to a crashing halt where they were T-boned at an intersection in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Dan should have died in the crash. Instead, due to the miracle of not wearing a seatbelt, he was thrown thirty feet, blacked out, and woke up cradled in the arms of the blonde angel who hit them, trying to remember the blackout revelation behind the words "We are all...""--
9780826364784 0826364780
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2022034475
021039802 Uk
Rose, Daniel Asa.
Authors--Biography.
Traffic accident victims--Biography.
Truth or Consequences (N.M.)
New Mexico--Truth or Consequences
PS3568.O7616 / Z46 2023
920 Ros 48
Truth or Consequences : improbable adventures, a near-death experience, and unexpected redemption in the New Mexico desert Daniel Asa Rose. - Albuquerque High Road Books 2023 - xv, 276 pages ; 24 cm
Contents
preface
Part I. Winter 2010: Forty years later
Part II. Two minutes later
Part III.Two months later
Epilogue
"At sixty, Daniel Asa Rose was a successful Massachusetts novelist, memoirist, and columnist for Esquire, GQ, Washington Post Book World and elsewhere, when, out of the blue (but not really), his wife filed for divorce. Before he slips completely into the cocktail of depression, doubt, self-loathing and anger that he mixes for himself, his lifelong friend Tony calls with a proposition: a trip back to the place where, forty years before, their hippy college kid road trip had come to a crashing halt where they were T-boned at an intersection in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Dan should have died in the crash. Instead, due to the miracle of not wearing a seatbelt, he was thrown thirty feet, blacked out, and woke up cradled in the arms of the blonde angel who hit them, trying to remember the blackout revelation behind the words "We are all...""--
9780826364784 0826364780
40031817412
2022034475
021039802 Uk
Rose, Daniel Asa.
Authors--Biography.
Traffic accident victims--Biography.
Truth or Consequences (N.M.)
New Mexico--Truth or Consequences
PS3568.O7616 / Z46 2023
920 Ros 48