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Idiot Wind

A Memoir

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Idiot Wind

By: Peter Kaldheim
Narrated by: Kerry Shale
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In 1987 a massive snowstorm hits New York as Peter Kaldheim flees the city, owing drug debts to a dealer who is no stranger to casual violence.

Leaving behind his chaotic past, Kaldheim hits the road, living hand-to-mouth in flophouses, panhandling with his fellow itinerants. As he makes his way across America in search of a new life, the harsh reality of living hand-to-mouth forces him to face up to his past, from his time in Rikers prison to relationships lost and lamented.

Kaldheim hikes and buses through an America rarely seen, and his encounters with a disparate collection of characters instils in him a new empathy and wisdom as he journeys on a road less travelled.

©2019 Peter Kaldheim (P)2019 Canongate Books Ltd Biographies & Memoirs

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Tips for hobos: a self-help guide

If you have ever wanted to know how to jump a freight train, earn a few dollars from a stab lab, bum a handful of coins from Mexicans or turn your meal tickets into real cash then this book will show you how. Even if you haven't but just love road trip books then this is for you. Kaldheim is constantly teetering on the edge of disaster in a book that is both gripping and entertaining. Well-written despite the author's penchant for finding twenty different synonyms for 'said', the book has heart and is excellently read by Kerry Shale. Ignore all negative reviews.

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