Finding Dean Moriarty

About the Book

In the summer of 1958, 18 year old Paul Israel takes a 3 month journey from New York to Mexico City to emulate his heroes from Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD. He passes through Washington D.C. and the deep South into Texas and Mexico. He meets a variety of amusing and provocative characters including baseball legend Jackie Robinson, civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy and football player "Large" LeFay. He experiences racial segregation, sex, violence, love and death in a series of encounters along the way. He learns about America and then absorbs the art, history and culture of Mexico. FINDING DEAN MORIARTY is an internal and external odyssey of self discovery.

About the Author

Michael Boloker, author of 5 books including A JOURNEY WEST and GETTING TO PHOENIX, is a free lance writer living in New York City and Paradise Valley, Arizona with his wife, Judith. FINDING DEAN MORIARTY is a tribute to Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD which is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. Reading the Beat Generation classic prompted the author to take the trip to Mexico in the summer of 1958 and keep a journal of his experiences, which is the basis of this "coming of age" novel.