The Journey of Simon McKeever by Maltz, Albert
The Journey of Simon McKeever by Maltz, Albert

The Journey of Simon McKeever

A rediscovered gem written by one of the Hollywood Ten, who were blacklisted for their involvement with...
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SKU: 9780714550800
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Author: Albert Maltz
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The Journey of Simon McKeever by Maltz, Albert

The Journey of Simon McKeever

$31.06
The Journey of Simon McKeever by Maltz, Albert

The Journey of Simon McKeever

$31.06
Author: Albert Maltz
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

A rediscovered gem written by one of the Hollywood Ten, who were blacklisted for their involvement with the Communist Party USA. Contains an introduction by Patrick Chura, Distinguished Professor, University of Akron.

Former oil worker, untutored philosopher, dreamer, man of laughter possessed with an indomitable spirit, seventy-three-year-old Simon McKeever runs away from a shabby state-run home for the elderly in Sacramento and hitch-hikes a ride to Los Angeles, in search of a cure for his arthritis. In the course of his personal odyssey on the road, McKeever - a modern working-class Everyman - will find something much more precious than a medical miracle: a realization that will enable him to bequeath to humankind his hard-won personal truth and thereby "move the world one inch forward".

In this technically flawless novel, now reprinted for the first time after its original American publication in 1949, Maltz elevates literature of the common man to high art, providing a life-affirming, enduring message of ordinary courage and heroism.

Author: Albert Maltz
Publisher: Alma Books
Published: 01/14/2025
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.40h x 4.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780714550800

About the Author
Albert Maltz (1908-85) was a prizewinning American playwright, fiction writer and screenwriter. His novel The Cross and the Arrow, about the German resistance to the Nazi regime, was distributed to 150,000 American soldiers during the Second World War. He worked on a number of films, including Casablanca, until he was blacklisted during McCarthyism. He is best remembered today for his novels A Tale of One January and The Journey of Simon McKeever.
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