title: Go West Old Man: A Father's Journey Across America With His Son
author:  Max Barnet 
description: Go West Old Man continues in the great American literary tradition of philosophical travelogues, worthy of sharing a shelf with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and even On the Open Road. It is a satisfying, readable trip, written from the heart. -- <i>Tom Groening, The Republican Journal, Belfast, ME April 1997</i><br /><br />In this blistering nonfiction account Harry Simon and his son take the ride of their lives. It is a deeply moving, penetrating, and ultimately heartbreaking experience of two men trying to reconcile their differences in a love-hate relationship wrought from years of family turmoil. Go West Old Man is a wonderful reading adventure that deserves a wide audience. -- <i>Ramon De Rosas, Maine in Print, February 1997</i><br /><br />This story outlines the struggles and joys of the relationship between child and parent and speaks to every one of us. -- <i>Michelle Simpson, Eclectic Book Reviews, March 1997</i>
zlib_text: 'Salem’s Lot
  
  By
  
  Stephen King
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [PROLOGUE](../Text/Salem_8217_s_Lot_split_002.html#filepos1084)
  
  Old friend, what are you looking for?  
  
  
  After those many years abroad you come  
  
  
  With images you tended  
  
  
  Under foreign skies  
  
  
  Far away from your own land  
  
  
    
  
  -George Seferis  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Almost everyone thought the man and the boy were father and son.
  
  They crossed the country on a rambling southwest line in an old Citroën sedan,
  keeping mostly to secondary roads, traveling in fits and starts. They stopped
  in three places along the way before reaching their final destination: first
  in Rhode Island, where the tall man with the black hair worked in a textile
  mill; then in Youngstown, Ohio, where he worked for three months on a tractor
  assembly line; and finally in a small California town near the Mexican border,
  where he pumped gas and worked at repairing small foreign cars with an amount
  of success that was, to him, surprising and gratifying.
  
  Wherever they 