All Roads Are Circles

By Tom Bentley

Betrayal, loyalty, emotional carnage, forgiveness and yes, sex--two old friends, recent graduates from high school, go hitchhiking across Canada in the 70s, and meet and fall in love with the same girl. Their rollicking ride hooks them up with gun-toting businessmen, devious runaways, sinister (and toothless) threats, two truck-stealing brothers for whom lunatic larceny is a daily treat, and a roadside philosopher as wise as he is generous.

All Roads Are Circles is a story of innocence lost, knowledge gained, and the sweet madness of accepting a ride with driver after driver who might not--or definitely don't--have their passengers' best interests in mind. A wild ride; seat belts optional.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tom Bentley
• Release date: Mar 25, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476271088

Tom Bentley

Tom Bentley is a business writer and editor, an essayist, and a fiction writer. He's had hundreds of freelance pieces published--ranging from first-person essays to travel pieces to more journalistic subjects--in newspapers, magazines, and online.His newest book is Sticky Fingers: Confessions of a Marginally Repentant Shoplifter, a memoir of his criminal youth. He is the author of All Roads Are Circles, a coming-of-age novel, and Flowering, a collection of short stories. His Think Like a Writer: How to Write the Stories You See speaks to finding and cultivating your writer's voice. His novel Aftershock is about three lives tossed asunder by the 1989 San Francisco earthquake. His newest novel, Swirled All the Way to the Shrub, is set in Prohibition-era Boston right at the Great Crash. Mr. Bentley would like you to pour him a Manhattan right at five.You can see his lurid website confessions at tombentley.com