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No place to rest* A grieving young Irish immigrant puts his motherless infant son in the hands of strangers and sails away, never to be heard from again. An old cowboy turns his ranch over to his wife and rides off into the sunset. A glimpse of a hobo waiting by muddy waters to board a west-bound freight train, the stuff of a young boy's dreams. I went out on the road in pursuit of angels and some crazed notion of perfect freedom, after I returned from Vietnam. I disappeared for ten years into the drama that was America in the sixties and seventies. Among other things, I learned that visions are not confined to saints and schizophrenics, I could be violently seasick for a week and survive, and not everyone wants rescue. Unable to sustain the degree of rootlessness and isolation that I found out on the road and yet unable to see a place in society to rest my head, I let the road become my prison. *bunch quitter: a colloquial expression generally used to describe an animal, usually a cow or steer, that resists being herded or controlled. This resistance can sometimes take the form of violent and even self-destructive behavior.

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""A thrilling trajectory of a troubadour and an epic of a turbulent America, yet deeply internal, honest, and evocative. Burgess has a confident voice, and swagger as a storyteller-- expertly unspooling the rope connecting time and place. From a rough and melancholy Montana, one man makes an impossibly expansive journey into the world, all that beauty and possibility bringing new meaning to where it all began."" -Richard Fifield, author of The Flood Girls and The Small Crimes of Tiffany Templeton

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