In 1996, Allan Weisbecker sold his home and his possessions, loaded his dog and surfboards into his truck, and set off in search of his long-time surfing companion, Patrick, who had vanished into the depths of Central America. In this rollicking memoir of his quest from Mexico to Costa Rica to unravel the circumstances of Patrick's disappearance, ...
When Allan Weisbecker penned the last sentence of "In Search of Captain Zero", most readers assumed the full scope of the tale had been told. But apparently, life had other plans. In his latest offering, "Can't You Get Along With Anyone?", Weisbecker chronicles the bizarre and convoluted circumstances that drove him from his adopted home in Costa ...
Weisbecker's colorful description and rolling narrative style make the retelling of his two-year sojourn through Mexico and Central America as compelling as his reasons for going in the first place--to escape the drudgery of the corporate day and to find a long-lost surfing buddy called Captain Zero.
Mr. Quark, a down-on-his luck, pot smuggling member of a small band of banditos, finds physics textbooks from among the spoils of a mugging and finds and confronts the books owner with his own theories on the meaning of life.
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