Night Train

by Donald O'Donovan

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.

Genres: Fiction

290 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 29, 2010

About the author

Donald O'Donovan is an optioned screenwriter and voice actor with film and audio book credits. He was born in Cooperstown, New York. A teenage runaway, O'Donovan rode freights, traveled the U.S., joined the army to get off the street, lived in Mexico, and worked at more than 200 occupations including long distance truck driver, undertaker and roller skate repairman.

The first draft of his novel NIGHT TRAIN was written on twenty-three yellow legal pads while the author was homeless on the streets of Los Angeles.

Reviews

[Kelly Huddleston · Rating 5 out of 5]

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 not only do not have a home, but are considered expendable.

It is my guess that this book will be ignored now, just like the homeless man on the corner is ignored by passing motorists in expensive cars, but that it will be lauded in the future when or if the pendulum swings once again and America finally wakes up to this needless brutality of its own people.