Night Train (1986)
"Night Train carried me nonstop along with its struggling passengers — riding the tracks of love and trust — from self-doubting despair to invincible self-recovery." —John Vasconcellos
So … after the debacle with Louie & Women, my agent Dorothy Pittman was unable to sell anything of mine, and a few years later she died of cancer in her early forties. With Dorothy died the tradition of the great literary agents who represented writers as artists, not as material providers for the corporate re-run factories that now dominate our culture. She was my greatest ally and I am still searching for the likes of her today. One of the last things she did for me was to introduce me to a new publisher in San Francisco, Mercury House, and it was to them that I sold my novel Night Train.
If I've ever written a novel that should be a paperback, Night Train is that novel, and it has never had a paperback incarnation. A favorite of teenagers and Beat poets and rock musicians and potheads, Night Train, too, was barely promoted, hardly distributed, and only furtively reviewed. It took me ten years to convince another publisher to take a chance with a novel of mine.
Night Train is available at Amazon. The author also has a limited supply of new copies (for $10):