Running Horseman

Chance Bailey, 16, leaves home, poker winnings in his pocket, to look for his father in New York. "I had been in New York City less than twenty-four hours and I had already met my first Jew and my first artist...I'd met a Miss American who'd danced the fandango with the King of the Hottentots. Whether or not this had actually happened was still unclear...I'd met a Nobel Prize-winning author who'd be imprisoned in a gulag... And although I did not even know her name, I'd met a red-haired usherette at the Radio City Music Hall and fallen desperately in love." Chance comes of age in this complex novel of love, guilt, grief, and ultimate triumph.