You Can't Get There from Here

By: Earl Hamner

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Synopsis: This new novel--by the author of Spencer's Mountain--tells the delightfully warm story of a sixteen-year-old boy's search for his errant father on a single crucial day in New York City. The boy is Wes Scott. He arrives home from his summer with his Virginia grandparents to find that his father, Joe, has disappeared--again. And Wes decides that this time he's going to look for Joe. You Can't Get There From Here tells of the adventures--funny, sad, touching--that befall Wes during the day he spends on his own in the city. The search takes Wes the length and breadth of Manhattan: To Greenwich Village--where he meets an apartmentful of airline hostesses. To Macy's--where he finds himself the accomplice of a most eccentric lady shopper. To the Fifth Avenue bus--where he becomes the unwilling companion of a little, lost boy. To a show-business bar in Radio City--where he gives good advice on how to steal a bar stool. To the United Nations--where, he finds, dogs aren't allowed. To the Plaza Hotel--where he has a rendezvous with a most sophisticated lady. To a surprising, terrifying, touching climax where Wes learns at last the kind of man his father is.