Headlong: Growing Up Recklessly is the captivating story of Jim, a young guy Growing up in the \'50s, \'60s, and \'70s, whose creative imagination and impulses provide us with an anthology of hilarious, poignant, dangerous, and adventurous escapades. -IndieReader Review.
His memoir will strike a chord with anyone who has struggled to find their place in the world.
Cindy Whitman, Founder/Director, Beach Shack Writers James D Schultz shares a collection of hair-raising anecdotes from his childhood and early adulthood peppered with pathos and pivotal moments in this pacey adventure memoir. of English, Carleton University "The scenes are brilliantly written, the story-telling, riveting.
Cinematic and psychological, the Reader is pulled into the narrative." Richard Taylor, Author, Dept.
The distinctive layers of boyhood memories are powerful, extremely funny, heart-felt, and memorable. \'HEADLONG\' is engaging, entertaining, fast-paced, and tightly written.
In a backdrop of the evolving, colourful, and turbulent culture of the era, Jim\'s adventures-which include fast cars and motorcycles, being buried in an avalanche, driving off a cliff, being the object of police investigations, sleeping with a mafia-protected Playboy Playmate, using drugs, and getting stabbed-leave the reader questioning how he ever survived to adulthood.
Emotionally honest and totally engaging, this upbeat, character-driven, coming-of-age adventure saga poses the questions of how Jim will deal with his own motivating demons, make sense of his morality, and come to terms with his sexual/love relationships.
The transformative journey of this sensitive, fun-loving, likeable miscreant, who appears immune to consequences, reflects the trauma he endures at his own hand; his soulmate yet bullying brother Rob\'s; and his abusive, authoritarian father\'s, each shadowed with an ever-present nudge from fate\'s misadventure.
Headlong: Growing Up Recklessly is the captivating story of Jim, a young guy Growing up in the \'50s, \'60s, and \'70s, whose creative imagination and impulses provide us with an anthology of hilarious, poignant, dangerous, and adventurous escapades
