Zero to Sixty: The Motorcycle Journey of a Lifetime

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By Gary Paulsen
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Zero to Sixty: The Motorcycle Journey of a Lifetime
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Nearing sixty, diagnosed with heart disease and feeling his mortality, Gary Paulsen buys his first HarleyDavidson and rides from his home in New Mexico to Alaskaand from the present into his past, through the landmarks of a singular life. Paulsens journey is peopled with familiar faces, from the tough cop who saved him from juvenile delinquency to the prostitute whose career advice stopped him from quitting the army. And the work he does while on his bikethe work of mapping his life to find meaningis of a piece with the pure sweat and muscle of youthful days spent on farms in Minnesota, or at the bottom of septic tank pits in Colorado, or wrangling dogsleds through the Alaskan wilderness. Amid the silence and beauty of running the road on his Harley, Paulsen celebrates the comforts of hard work, the thrill of challenge met bravely, and the peculiar joys of life lived to its fullest.

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9780156007047

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