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Detours: Life, Death, and Divorce on the Road to Sturgis by Richard La Plante
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2002-08-24
- Pages
- 284
- ISBN
- 9780765303240
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co
ISBN-10
0765303248
ISBN-13
9780765303240
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1962601
Product Key Features
Book Title
Detours : Life, Death, and Divorce on the Road to Sturgis
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
Motorcycles / General, United States / General
Features
Revised
Genre
Travel, Transportation
Book Series
Motorcycle Memoir Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
10.2 in
Item Width
4.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-069258
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"I had a great laugh over the whole story. Richard La Plante is having one helluva good time and passing that along to the reader."-American Rider "Like many a fancier of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle, the 'hog' of song and story, La Plante became hooked, then obsessed, then broke. He's still hooked, obsessed, and broke."-Los Angeles Times "This book is a Bible for the first-time Harley rider and anybody else who's ever dreamed of a life in the wind."-K. Randall Ball, editor ofEasy Rider Magazine
Series Volume Number
No. 2 of 2
Dewey Decimal
796.7/5/092 B
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
Author Richard La Plante had always wanted to ride cross-country to Sturgis, South Dakota. To the famous motorcycle rally that began as a small gathering of the Jack Pine Gypsies MC in 1938 and grew to become the Mecca for the American motorcyclist. But, by the age of fifty-three, still bruised from a divorce, newly remarried and a father for the first time, he thought the trip was destined to remain an armchair fantasy. Then came the summer of 1999. Again his wife was pregnant-with a second child. The family was temporarily homeless, he was suffering from writer's block, but a Big Dog motorcycle that he had been designing by phone was finished and ready to ship. With no place to live, a new wife and child, another baby on the way, a blank computer screen, a teetering bank balance, a twenty-five thousand dollar motorcycle ready for delivery, and a mind that felt parboiled, La Plante made a decision. Escape. Out of the armchair and into the saddle. On a borrowed bike, he set off for the Black Hills of Dakota. Waiting at the end of the ride was a week-long party, a cast of outrageous characters, a sea of chrome, steel, and rock'n'roll, and his Big Dog motorcycle. But the real story is the miles in between. Moments of crazed introspection while stranded beneath a highway underpass in Iowa waiting for the floods to stop, the sheer euphoria of watching the sunrise in the mirror with the wind in his face and the bike roaring west, the anguish of being hopelessly lost on the wrong side of Chicago, all add up to the metaphor of a life's journey. Told in La Plante's humorous and self-deprecating style, Detours is a wild ride, all the way home.
LC Classification Number
GV1060.2.L32A3 2002
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- a***n (43)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseMistakenly ordered a paperback that I thought was a hardcover, not sellers fault; it was described properly on the listing. Seller still processed a refund the day I went to return the item and let me keep the item anyway. A+++ service. Book arrived quickly in great condition and for a great price. Thank you so much! Amazing seller!
- n***c (94)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseseller was communicative about my shipment, media mail took a while and tracking wasn't updated frequently, but seller communicated to me very quickly on status. the item came new and wrapped as described, though the packaging in it was packed wasn't sturdy and falling apart when it got to me.