One of the Los Angeles Times Top 10 California Books of 2020.
The son of Guatemalan immigrants, he is a native of Los Angeles, where he lives with his family..
Noir , ZYZZYVA , and Slate .
His short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories , L.
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He has written for The New Yorker , the Los Angeles Times , and other publications.
Tobar is also a contributing writer for the New York Times opinion pages and an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine.
He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Deep Down Dark , as well as The Barbarian Nurseries , Translation Nation , and The Tattooed Soldier .
About author(s): Héctor Tobar is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and novelist.
The Last Great Road Bum is the Great American novel Joe Sanderson never could have written, but did truly live--a fascinating, timely hybrid of fiction and nonfiction that only a master of both like Héctor Tobar could pull off.
A decade ago, Tobar came into possession of the personal writings of the late Joe Sanderson, which chart Sanderson\'s freewheeling course across the known world, from Illinois to Jamaica, to Vietnam, to Nigeria, to El Salvador--a life determinedly an adventure, ending in unlikely, anonymous heroism.
With these facts, acclaimed novelist and journalist Héctor Tobar set out to write what would become The Last Great Road Bum .
He was born into a childhood of middle-class contentment in Urbana, Illinois and died fighting with guerillas in Central America.
He was, in his words, a "Road bum," an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas.
Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about.
In The Last Great Road Bum , Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the Great American novel for our times.
One of Exile in Bookville\'s Favorite Books of 2020.
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the Joyce Carol Oates prize.
One of Publishers Weekly \'s Top 10 Fiction Books from 2020 .
One of the Los Angeles Times Top 10 California Books of 2020
