Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing RoadWithin a ten-month period, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake, Peart was left without direction. This memoir tells of the sense of personal devastation that led him on a 55,000-mile journey by motorcycle across much of North America, down through Mexico to Belize, and back again. Peart’s journey of self-exile and exploration chronicle his personal odyssey and include stories of reuniting with friends and family, grieving, and reminiscing. He recorded with dazzling artistry, the enormous range of his travel adventures, from the mountains to the seas, from the deserts to the Arctic ice, and the memorable people who contributed to his healing. Ghost Rider is a brilliantly written, and ultimately triumphant narrative memoir from a gifted writer and the drummer and lyricist of the legendary rock band Rush. |
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... talked of suicide constantly. I had to keep a close watch on her sedatives and sleeping pills, and make sure she was never left alone. When she did surrender to a drugged sleep, she held a framed picture of Selena in her arms. After a ...
... talking about some place in Toronto where he used to live that was apparently close by something that was supposed to be meaningful to the person he thought I was, but I was still thinking of alternatives from the answer index. “I used ...
... talked to my dad about what I had been seeing and remembering. He told me that when his dad and Uncle John were young they used to come west to Manitoba from southern Ontario on the “harvest trains,” which gathered young men from as far ...
... least, it was very unlike the fool I used to be. “Mr. Gregarious,” I laughed at myself in my journal. Probably good for me, though. I do find I'm talking to myself fairly often, which makes me laugh (crazy old coot). But.
... talked with me for a few minutes about London's life and writing, and dismissed the biography I'd read as “sensationalized.” She recommended a couple of others, and when I named the few books of his that I had read so far, she said I ...