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Peter Kaldheim

Peter Kaldheim graduated in English and Classics from Dartmouth, before going on to work in publishing (as head copy editor at Harcourt then acquiring editor at Van Nostrand Reinhold), but an addiction to drugs caused his life to come apart, landing him in Rikers Island jail after he sold cocaine to an undercover drug squad agent. He now lives in Lindenhurst, Long Island, where he fishes for fluke on charter boats out of Montauk.

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Title:: Idiot Wind (MP3)
Written by:: Peter Kaldheim
Read by:: Kerry Shale
Format:: Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 1
Duration:: 10 hours 29 minutes
MP3 size:: 432 MB
Published:: September 01 2019
Available Date:: September 01 2019
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9780655626183
Genres:: Non-fiction; Memoirs
Publisher:: Bolinda/Canongate audio

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The memoir of one man's journey from addiction back to sobriety and sanity via the road.

In 1987 a massive snowstorm hits New York as Peter Kaldheim flees the city, owing drug debts to a dealer who is no stranger to casual violence. Leaving behind his chaotic past, Kaldheim hits the road, living hand-to-mouth in flop-houses, pan-handling with his fellow itinerants. As he makes his way across America in search of a new life, the harsh reality of living hand-to-mouth forces him to face up to his past, from his time in Rikers prison, to relationships lost and lamented. Kaldheim hikes and buses through an America rarely seen, and his encounters with a disparate collection of characters instils in him a new empathy and wisdom, as he journeys on a road less travelled.