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 chronicles his personal odyssey and includes 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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Like I was describing to you before, these mundane things are annoying and
unnecessary all right, for everyone and especially for us“walking wounded,” but
such pests and parasites in life are not really real, after all. Not like that groin-
sucking ...
(A corner where things are assembled as they're thought of, over the course of a
week or two before leaving. It's a good ... But the weird thing is I don't even know
what that Jungbrain, Freud-brain, Ur-brain of mine is goddam doing. Where is it ...
Yesterday Deb and I were going through some of Selena's things, and putting up
her collections of key rings and shot glasses (how many of those you and I picked
up on our travels!) in the Selena Memorial Library. At first it was okay, and we ...
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User Review - jrthebutler - LibraryThingAfter the tragic losses of both his wife and 19 year old daughter, RUSH drummer Neil Peart embarks on a 14 month, 55,000 mile motorcycle journey in order to find a reason to live. Read full review
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User Review - absurdeist - LibraryThingImagine sending your nineteen-year-old daughter, Selena, your only child, off to college in the morning, and that evening the police show up at your front door with some "bad news". Imagine the ... Read full review