Book description
Charlie Conti has just come into his inheritance. Young, rich and
alone in the world, he decides to leave the echoing luxury of his
Manhattan home and head for Los Angeles. He throws wild parties and
everyone comes, but he remains on the outside, an isolated figure.
Then he meets Ray Celador. Ray has the eyes of a visionary and the
rough, gnarled hands of a lumberjack. He deals in drugs, women and
philosophy, and before long he's indispensable to Charlie:
father-figure, teacher, friend. But who, in the end, is Ray Celador?
And who when he finds himself stripped of his home, his money and his
identity is Charlie Conti? A thriller with a literary twist, this is
the story of Charlie's betrayal, of the theft of his identity and of
his attempt to recover what is his. His extraordinary meetings along
the way and the magic of America's vast landscapes are captured by a
voice that is innocent, wry and thoughtful.
