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One of the Los Angeles Times Top 10 California Books of 2020. One of Publishers Weeklys Top 10 Fiction Books from 2020. Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the Joyce Carol Oates prize. One of Exile in Bookvilles Favorite Books of 2020.In The Last Great Road Bum, Hctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times.Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a road bum, an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born into a childhood of middleclass contentment in Urbana, Illinois and died fighting with guerillas in Central America. With these facts, acclaimed novelist and journalist Hctor Tobar set out to write what would become The Last Great Road Bum.A decade ago, Tobar came into possession of the personal writings of the late Joe Sanderson, which chart Sandersons freewheeling course across the known world, from Illinois to Jamaica, to Vietnam, to Nigeria, to El Salvadora life determinedly an adventure, ending in unlikely, anonymous heroism.The Last Great Road Bum is the great American novel Joe Sanderson never could have written, but did truly livea fascinating, timely hybrid of fiction and nonfiction that only a master of both like Hctor Tobar could pull off.
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