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Can't You Get Along With Anyone?
Allan C. Weisbecker
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ISBN: 978-0-97977117-0-1
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Summary
At the finale of his critically acclaimed first memoir, In Search of Captain Zero, Allan Weisbecker has found his paradise at the end of the road in outback Central America (Pavones, Costa Rica), and is working of the screen adaptation of the book, commissioned by Sean Penn and a major Hollywood studio.
Can’t You Get Along With Anyone? is the story of Weisbecker’s paradise, its underbelly, his fall from grace with the powers that be in Hollywood and the publishing business, plus the near loss of his life due to the writing of the book; he exposes a double murderer and, more dangerously, “the love of his life” as a sociopath.
Interwoven through the various catastrophes that test him on every level, are Weisbecker’s reflections on the process of writing the book itself and the nature of nonfiction. Weathering his “after-writing throes,” “writer’s queasy gut,” and “hemorrhaging forehead” (from staring at the blank page), Weisbecker maintains his sanity and perspective through his wry, sometimes wildly funny take on his own fears and flaws, and through retreat into the purity of the simple act of riding a wave.
A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
When in the fall of 2006 my British publisher sold out a limited Advance Reading Copy (ARC) run of 1,800 copies of my book, the reader reaction was overwhelming. Within a month I’d gotten just under 400 emails and letters: One in four readers took the time to write. Unprecedented. (Stephen King says one in a thousand readers contact him.) The sentiments expressed are reflected in these Amazon Reader Reviews, which started pouring in on October 1st, the publication date of the book in the U.S..
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
Surfer Magazine
As his sanity, health and existence are simultaneously mangled, Weisbecker somehow manages to solve a murder, wrestle the dark side of paradise, and wind up on multiple third world hit lists… Can’t You Get Along With Anyone? is a necessity for anyone who believes truth is indeed stranger than fiction… an entrancing, thoughtful and darkly humorous calamity.
Paste Magazine
If you’re looking for Hunter S. T’s and Kerouac’s lost cousin, look no further. In terms of brass balls and lunatic schemes filled with desperadoes, delusions, and dirt roads, Weisbecker goes toe-to-toe with Neal Cassidy/Dean Moriarity any day. -- Jay Sweet
Jack Magazine
With In Search of Captain Zero and now Can’t You Get Along With Anyone? I believe Allan Weisbecker is the greatest memoirist of our time. -- Mary Sands
Ink 19
Can’t You Get Along With Anyone? is a writer’s book about writing. And when I say writer, I mean Writer. I’ve already compared Weisbecker’s writing with Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s, and now I’m going to compare it to Mark Twain’s. Alexandr Solzhenitsyn is a Writer. Mark Twain is a Writer. And Allan Weisbecker is a Writer. -- James Maclaren
About the Author
Allan C. Weisbecker is a screenwriter, photographer, surfer and critically acclaimed author of In Search of Captain Zero and Cosmic Banditos, and has written extensively for film and television, including the hit 80s drama Miami Vice. Can’t You Get Along With Anyone? follows Weisbecker through his most enduring challenge yet: life in paradise.
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