Amos : To Ride A Dead Horse - Softcover

West, Stanley Gordon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0965624706 ISBN 13: 9780965624701

Publisher: Lexington Marshall Publishing, LLC, 2000

Synopsis

A sports legend resides in a nursing home who encounters and unexpected life journey.

West’s AMOS is an imposing landscape of human drama and emotion – hear-rendering, timeless, hilarious, stunning, joyful, - an incredible story, a book that rips readers early and late, a novel they don’t want to end… a page turner with heart, a joy to read, a treasure to cherish.

Ever so often, indifference and neglect mutate into unmitigated evil and then humanity goes on trial.  Rarely, someone stands in the breach and shouts “No” with only courage and dignity as weapons.  Amos was a man who thought he’s experienced all that life had to offer, when with a capricious turn of fate, he fell through the cracks of society’s institutions, in to the merciless cogwheels of human apathy and carelessness.  His struggle not only to survive, but, to overcome is a compelling testimony to the inner strength and irrepressible spirit of man.  Against devastating odds and arrogant brutality, Amos finds a triumph he never expected.

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About the Author

Stanley Gordon West was born in St. Paul, MN and grew up during the Great Depression and the World War II years. He graduated from Central High School in 1950 and attended Macalester College and the University of Minnesota, earning a degree in history and geology in 1955. He moved from the midwest to Montana in 1964 where he raised a large family. Stanley wrote several novels, including AMOS: To Ride a Dead Horse, which was produced as a CBS Movie of the Week starring Kirk Douglas, Elizabeth Montgomery and Dorothy McGuire and was nominated for four Emmys. You Are My Sunshine was his last work before his passing in 2015.

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From Chapter 15: Amos sat with him until Winston fell into a deep sleep. What spark of life burned brightly in his sunken chest these past two days, a woeful, comic old-timer in an oversized coat and hat, running for his freedom, his sanity, his human dignity, or was he just searching for his never-to-be-forgotten dog? Amos returned to his bed. He didn't know how he could ever explain it to Winston. They were all looking for what they had lost.

From Chapter 7: His words sounded feeble and impotent in the quiet night, fragile birds in a violent storm, floating hollow down the hall. They were brave words, noble, uttered by an old man who doubted he could ever back them up. He lay awake all night with his thoughts, keeping vigil over Johnny's fallen body. He could see Johnny, running a white horse across the Wyoming prairie, smiling and waving to a girl in a blue dress.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Marshall Publishing, LLC
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0965624706
• ISBN 13: 9780965624701
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 231