Praise for Robert Gover's previous novels
"First rate...extraordinary...a work of art...Brilliant." Newsweek.
"Gover writes like a Salinger with guts." Los Angles Times.
"Hot stuff for us children of the '50's." Bobby Dylan in a Studs Terkel interview.
"Gover has created a tart as remarkable as any to be found in recent literature." Joseph Heller, author of Catch 22.
"So exuberantly different from the common run of novels that the celebration should be long and loud." Atlantic Monthly.
"Real and powerful." Dallas Times Herald.
"A literary Halley's comet..."
Gore Vidal.
Twelve year-old Jane Doyle is escaping an oppressive North Carolina group home. Sixty-three year-old Dick Steel is grieving the death of his beloved wife and coping with insurmountable medical bills. When Dick packs his van for a cross-country drive to California, Jane stows onboard. She threatens to accuse Dick of rape if he turns her over to the police. It's a stalemate until Dick learns that Jane is fleeing people who will sell her into an overseas sex slavery operation. Halfway across America, Dick decides to make a stand. This odd couple from society's demographic fringe must deal with those determined to recapture Jane to save their own skins.
"Purebred American rockabilly prose, an inversion of Lotita, a subversion of authoritarian social control, and a reversion to a taut, ultra-hip writing style so sadly missing from most of today's writing." Stephen Davis, author or Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend.
"It doesn't take long for Robert Gover's new novel to hook you. Absolutely a page-turner." Thomas Kennedy, Advisory Editor of The Literary Review, International Editor of Story Quarterly, and author of The Copenhagen Quartet.
"Not since Dickens has an author shown the guts to toss the social disorder in our faces while wrapped inside a terrific story." Christopher Klim, author the The Winners Circle and Jesus Lives in Trenton.
"Jane is a Gordian knot: shiftless, incorrigible, perhaps even schizophrenic and yet somehow this creature that will not allow herself to be saved, must be saved." Jason Price Everett, Sharkodyne Reviews.