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Don't think twice : adventure and healing at 100 miles per hour
- Title
- Don't think twice : adventure and healing at 100 miles per hour / Barbara Schoichet.
- Author
- Schoichet, Barbara
- Publication
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2016]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 16-12738 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 322 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "A late-in-life coming-of-age escapade told with humor and heart, Don't Think Twice is a moving and irreverent account of grief, growing up, and the healing power of adventure. Within six months, Barbara Schoichet lost everything: her job, her girlfriend of six years, and her mother to pancreatic cancer. Her life stripped bare, and armed with nothing but a death wish and a ton of attitude, Barbara pursues an unlikely method of coping. At the age of fifty she earns her motorcycle license, buys a Harley on eBay from two guys named Dave, and drives it alone from New York to Los Angeles on a circuitous trek loosely guided by her H.O.G. tour book and a whole lot of road whimsy. On the open highway--where she daily takes her speed to a hundred--Barbara battles physical limitations and inner demons on a journey that flows through the majestic Appalachian Mountains, the enchanting Turquoise Trail, and all along America's iconic Route 66. She is awed by the battlefields in Gettysburg, stunned by the decadence of Graceland, and amused by a Cadillac graveyard in the middle of nowhere. She meets kind strangers, odd strangers, and a guy who pulls a gun on her for cutting him off. She is vulnerable but sassy, broken but determined to heal. Or die trying"--
- Alternative Title
- Do not think twice
- Subject
- Schoichet, Barbara > Travel > United States
- Motorcycle touring > United States
- Middle-aged women > Travel > United States
- Women motorcyclists > United States > Biography
- Middle-aged women > United States > Biography
- Travel > Psychological aspects
- Mental healing > United States
- Adjustment (Psychology) > United States
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- United States > Description and travel
- Call Number
- JFE 16-12738
- ISBN
- 9781101981801
- 1101981806
- LCCN
- 2016008413
- OCLC
- 2016008413
- Author
- Schoichet, Barbara, author.
- Title
- Don't think twice : adventure and healing at 100 miles per hour / Barbara Schoichet.
- Publisher
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-12738