In this not quite memoir, not quite autobiography, not quite travelogue, the author travels to the edge of the Sahara in Morocco, drives across the deserts of Australia, goes on a day trip to the Pyramids and returns to the deserts of California, Arizona and New Mexico. His journeys, full of visual events and changing landscapes, give him time to reflect on his failed marriage, his new relationship and the imminent death of his father, who is suddenly diagnosed as being terminally ill when Nicholson is half - way through his travels. The author also wrote "Street Sleeper", which was shortlisted for the Yorkshire Post First Novel Award, "The Knot Garden", "What we Did on Our Holidays" and "Hunters and Gatherers".
- ISBN10 0340553715
- ISBN13 9780340553718
- Publish Date 7 May 1992
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 4 May 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Imprint Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English