Night Train: A Novel

by Donald O'Donovan

Overview

Fast, furious, unforgettable and set against the backdrop of a crumbling civilization, NIGHT TRAIN follows arch-outsider Jerzy Mulvaney in an audacious account of what it means to be homeless on the streets of Los Angeles.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452472515
Publisher:	Open Books
Publication date:	01/29/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	346 KB

About the Author

Donald O’Donovan was born in Cooperstown, New York. A teenage runaway, he rode freights and hitchhiked across America, served in the US Army with the 82nd Airborne Division, lived in Mexico, and worked at more than 200 occupations including telephone psychic, undertaker and roller skate repairman.

A former long distance truck driver, he wrote Confessions of a Bedbug Hauler while running 48 states and Canada for Schneider National. As a volunteer at the Braille Institute in Los Angeles he recorded several western novels, and subsequently studied voice acting with James Alburger and Penny Abshire. O’Donovan lived for two years at the historic Wilshire Royale Hotel while writing Tarantula Woman (to be published in February, 2011 by Open Books), and wrote the first draft of Night Train (Open Books, 2010) on 23 yellow legal pads while homeless in the streets of LA.

An optioned screenwriter and voice actor with film and audio book credits, Donald O’Donovan lives mostly in Los Angeles.

Editorial Reviews

Without moral rectitude, or digressing into the boring, played-out, over-simplified platitudes of right or wrong, black or white, rich or poor, natural born citizen or immigrant, God or no God, NIGHT TRAIN: A NOVEL by Donald O’Donovan shows us the absurdity of the fact that in the city of Los Angeles alone three quarters of a million people are homeless.

Kelly Huddleston