{"product_id":"hallelujah-canyon-richard-lightbody-9788797058213","title":"Hallelujah Canyon: They Experience Everywhere, They Go Nowhere","description":"\u003cp\u003eExpect the unexpected. If you are seeking religious enlightenment, don't be misled by the title, read something else - Hallelujah is more an expression than the route to salvation, although you could argue the whole story is about redemption. That's not a spoiler. It points to a black comedy with huge shafts of light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor many of those featured in the book life is black. They are blind, not bleak. It is hard to place the 400 pages into a genre; it's comedy, it's a crime story of sorts, it has a romantic sub plot, it is travel and sub-sequential trivia. If it were a movie it would be The Truman Show, meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with elements of Some Like It Hot and the Marx Brothers - a heady mix to get into one billposter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuper author Bill Bryson was kind enough to read it. A confession, his thoughtful endorsement and encouragement is that of a friend, but Bill's a literary genius and doesn't use words without meaning them. You'd do so much better to buy one of his books, but he's promised his family, a sabbatical away from any keyboards. There's a gap in the leisure reading timetable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDue to one bat in China, we might not get the opportunity to travel freely for a while, Hallelujah Canyon was a prolonged writing exercise, but strangely it might be a pointer to what future vacations might contain. Here you can go on an international journey like no other. The characters drawn from life, are disguised. It is a work of fiction, built on facts and experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday's world is a complex compilation of cultures. This is a tale about a group of Americans, written by a Brit, from an island nation excluded again from Europe, proudly holding an Irish passport, driving a Japanese car made in England, married to a Dane driving a Korean car designed in Germany, addicted to Indian food, and revealing parts of an old and much trampled continent like you never imagined, without getting there - confused, read on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Lightbody\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8797058211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9788797058213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lightbody IV\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.82d","brand":"Richard Lightbody","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44213308883199,"sku":"9788797058213","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f35ef0b3-9235-4948-a5f7-f56d24378c85.jpg?v=1692113151","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hallelujah-canyon-richard-lightbody-9788797058213","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}