Everybody Knows and Nobody Cares

by Mason Smith

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394423828
• ISBN13: 9780394423821
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A late 60s road trip novel that stands the test of time

I first read Everybody knows and nobody cares when it was first published, and loved it. Smith's descriptions of nature and its interaction with the human spirit rate with the very best I've read by any author. I went back to re-read the book a couple of years ago, hoping to refresh myself with that side of the book. Much to my surprise and delight, the characters and their stories were just as refreshing, and the sensual delight they take in each other works just as well now as it did thirty years ago. Indeed, the book teaches us, with delightful, spare, vivid prose, that living intensely matters to all of us, at whatever age. The hero's journey through the west is as much a journey through possible alternative lives, and ways of looking at life, as anything else. It's a journey worth taking.