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Ultimate Excursions
Ultimate Excursions...
...is an arrested development coming-of-age story.
Seeking a respite from the stresses of Peace Corps life in rural Ecuador, Tim Lake embarks on a vacation to Peru with a troubled fellow volunteer.
But what Tim believes is an innocent journey devolves into chaos.When a Peace Corps official insists on covering up the ensuing mess and its deadly consequences, Tim must confront his own cowardice, complicity, and culpability.After wallowing for a decade, circumstances force him into a reckoning, and a voyage toward redemption.
As Tim stumbles upon hidden truths about the ill-fated trip, Ultimate Excursions takes a shocking, 90-degree turn that will keep readers transfixed.
At once gripping, darkly funny, and ultimately redemptive,Ultimate Excursions is part picaresque, part thriller, and part meditation on what makes us tick as human beings.
...is an arrested development coming-of-age story.
Seeking a respite from the stresses of Peace Corps life in rural Ecuador, Tim Lake embarks on a vacation to Peru with a troubled fellow volunteer.
But what Tim believes is an innocent journey devolves into chaos.When a Peace Corps official insists on covering up the ensuing mess and its deadly consequences, Tim must confront his own cowardice, complicity, and culpability.After wallowing for a decade, circumstances force him into a reckoning, and a voyage toward redemption.
As Tim stumbles upon hidden truths about the ill-fated trip, Ultimate Excursions takes a shocking, 90-degree turn that will keep readers transfixed.
At once gripping, darkly funny, and ultimately redemptive,Ultimate Excursions is part picaresque, part thriller, and part meditation on what makes us tick as human beings.
328 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 13, 2007
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About the author
Alan Gottlieb
22 books3 followersA native of Chicago, Alan Gottlieb received a Bachelor's Degree from Colorado College (1979) and a Master's Degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (1984). He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador in 1980-81. Ultimate Excursions draws, in part, from some of his experiences during that time. Alan spent 16 years as a newspaper reporter and editor, working for the Ute Pass Courier in Woodland Park, Colorado, The Bridgeport Post in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and The Denver Post. He spent 10 years working on public education reform for The Piton Foundation, a philanthropic organization in Denver. He is currently the Vice President for Policy and Business Engagement at Denvers Public Education and Business Coalition. There, he produces a monthly online education magazine, HeadFirst Colorado, as well as an electronic education newsletter and a blog.
Alan is also author of In the Shadow of the Rockies, a comical, offbeat look at the inaugural season of Denvers Major League Baseball team. The book was published in hardcover by Roberts Rinehart Publishers in 1994. It will soon be available in paperback on this website and through major online booksellers.
Alan lives in central Denver with his wife Elizabeth Randall, an Episcopal priest. Their daughter, Marian, is a student at Bennington College in Vermont."
Alan is also author of In the Shadow of the Rockies, a comical, offbeat look at the inaugural season of Denvers Major League Baseball team. The book was published in hardcover by Roberts Rinehart Publishers in 1994. It will soon be available in paperback on this website and through major online booksellers.
Alan lives in central Denver with his wife Elizabeth Randall, an Episcopal priest. Their daughter, Marian, is a student at Bennington College in Vermont."
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January 24, 2008dark. honest. couldn't put it down. something about the existential nature of selfhood kept me hooked.
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