Young but Free

By Daniel J. Rice

EARLY READER EDITIONMany people never cure themselves from what happened in their youth, and others never make it out alive. This is a
riveting story of one who did. Barely.

In the late 1900s, the final graduating class of the twentieth century, a sprawling city of street gangs and clashing cultures is juxtaposed against the sharp mountain peaks in the distance where a disappearing way of life is hanging by a thread. Eddie Young, a senior in high school, is at the breaking point, trapped between these two opposing forces: the city with his friends, a reputation and the girl, or the mountains with his memories, peace and a river.

Rooted in the times of 1999; the high school parking lots and basement parties, the sky scrapers and pocket pagers, mountain trails and streams still pristine, at the end of a century and milenium, this is a chronicle of human experiences that transcends time and place.

FROM THE PAGES:
"He was young but that wasn't his fault. The other age waited and he believed he was ready."

"Old Steve never got to be old. I wonder if the river remembers him. If the water still bends around the places his feet used to stand. If there's trout still alive and swimming here who have felt his hook in their lip..."

"This looked like a good place for a gunfight. As good as any."

"The mountains are my relief and this is the place where peace lives."

"He wished for them nothing more than what he knew now, that it was all possible, the pain was worth the reward if you followed it through the bends and hills and met your demons square in the jaw with a smile upon your face."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DQKSR9TL
• ISBN13: 9798992007725
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Riverfeet Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"