Table of Contents
Author's Note 13
Introduction 15
1 All I Need's a Fast Machine 21
2 The Widow and the Preacher Man 29
3 The Last Chance Ranch 37
4 Don's Garage 46
5 Laurieland 51
6 Julian and Charlene 60
7 Hog Heaven 71
8 The Father Who Wasn't There 82
9 House of Horrors 90
10 Two Schools of Thought 96
11 A Death Sentence 104
12 New York State of Mind 110
13 The Blob and the Bible 117
14 California Dreamin' 124
15 The American Dream 128
16 A Man and His Castle 133
17 Motherless Child 139
18 The Canyon 146
19 The Monster Within 153
20 The Fall 159
21 A Jamaican Seed 165
22 The Towering Babel 173
23 Nothing New under the Sun 181
24 The Visitor 188
25 Broad Beach Memoirs 193
26 Learning to Fly 199
27 Hello, Preacher Man! 205
28 Somebody Up There Likes Me 210
29 A Test of Faith 215
30 Knockin' on Heaven's Door 221
31 See You in Heaven 227
Postscript: Good News in a Bad World 235
