A Desert in Bloom: The best road trips never end. - Hardcover

Bayne, William Landvoigt

Hardcover

ISBN 13: 9798991347921

Verlag: Coyote Films Edition, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

What can you hold on to when everything around you is changing?

Two unlikely friends wander the west in old Ford station wagon. One is fighting time and the other addiction. In quiet confessions, they travel a mysterious past, through a present warmed by wisdom and laughter. The people they meet are unpredictable: aristocrats, mobsters, strong women and weak men. Theirs is a troubled odyssey, torn by jailbreaks, flash floods, heartbreak and war.

"Brutally honest and beautifully written, Bayne delivers an unforgettable saga of redemption and grace."
- Mitchell Sam Rossi, author of SEA OF BETRAYAL

Based on a mostly true story, A Desert in Bloom is a timeless adventure across a century of change - a braided history woven with con artists, movie stars, car chases and big cats. Set against the relentless destruction of the natural world, it is one family’s destiny unfolding in the road trip you’ll never forget.

From the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to the California Sierra, on freight trains and broken caravans, a small boy comes of age. Through barren deserts and shattered mineshafts, he struggles to survive - on blazing ammunition ships, in white-out blizzards and glittering casinos. A life once bound by circumstance, set free by passion and purpose

Like The Grapes of Wrath, A Desert in Bloom has its roots in the Great Depression, in a landscape plagued by poverty, prejudice and broken dreams. Like Lonesome Dove, it is a heartfelt journey of the willing, an unbreakable bond forged on a jagged trail.

Writer/director William Landvoigt Bayne explores the intersection of truth and legend in an epic tale for our times. After a long career in commercial and documentary film, this is his first novel – and he still has that ’56 Ford.

To see the film behind the adventure, visit ADesertInBloom.net.

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WILLIAM LANDVOIGT BAYNE grew up in the South, lives in the West, and was educated on the roads somewhere in between. As a young man, he hitchhiked across America, drew comic books, and ran away to join the circus. That didn't work out long term, so he moved on to advertising and television, using the same skills he picked up shoveling manure with the Ringling Brothers. He has a lot of shiny statues from those filmmaking days. Writing fiction is a lot more fun than shoveling, so that's what he does now. Bayne's unique voice springs from his long experience as an artist, director and storyteller. His many documentary and commercial honors include: The New York Art Directors Club Award, the Telly, the Addy, the Time-Life Freddie Award, the BLUE Ocean Film Festival Award, and recognition at both the Houston and San Francisco International Film Festivals.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Coyote Films Edition
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798991347921
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 334
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