Camping Out In Monterey - Softcover

Camping Out in Monterey is a true story almost written in blood and is a continuation of the author s autobiographical stories David Johnson Passed Through Here which the New York Times Book Review called the quintessential thumb trip narrative Highway 101 and This Autumn a love story set in Montral It s about being an artist and writer in an evil often impossible world and a spiritual journey with a triumph of the human soul over very much illness and travail It contains a considerable amount about writing and the writer s life and Hollywood Set in California s spectacular Big Sur coast and Monterey County one gets a good picture of the wilderness there as in Livingstone s Big Sur and the Canyon but with an entirely different type of story though both are personal Camping Out in Monterey is also an intense psychological drama and speaks to some of the current nightmares of modern America the real truth about some of its medical care among other things how they become businesses and like infections threaten our lives