Six miles to roadside business

By Michael Doane

Following his father's suicide, Vance makes a quiet garden in the wilderness for himself and his family, until a strange cult inverts his father's death into religious myth, adopting Vance as resident... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394581067
• ISBN13: 9780394581064
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Interesting and entertaining

I bought this book for 69¢ at a local grocery store. I was attracted by the title, and hey, 69¢. All I wanted from it at that price was that it not be boring. It wasn't boring. It was an intriguing story, and it kept me interested the whole way through. It's been years (maybe a decade) since I read it, but there are still little touches that I remember: the painted stones left by the hippie cult members, the way Ravel's father "walked into light", and the line "It isn't true that you can't go broke selling ice cream in the desert" as Ravel walks by an abandoned ice-cream stand. I'd recommend this book to anyone looking for a decent 69¢ novel.