Laura Pieroni, who used to work for the Elko Free Press and who now writes and reviews books on her personal site (among other places like the great Line Zero), has a new review of The Short, Short Hitchhiker up on her site, Laura Reviews Books.   Please go to her site and read the whole thing, it truly captures the essence of Stanley’s book.  Here is a quick taste:

The Short, Short Hitchhiker is an unbelievably funny and interesting autobiography by a man, now sadly deceased, named Stanley Gurcze. At an all too brief 136 pages Stanley weaves his many stories of hitchhiking across the United States (mostly through Nevada, Arizona, and Texas) and how he came to be a  homeless roamer.

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This is a little gem of a book written by someone who simply wanted to tell stories, his stories. It’s rare to find a manuscript written purely for the sake of storytelling, without the driving desire to be rich or famous or respected through being a published author. I wish more books had the raw honesty of this memoir, and I highly suggest you all give it a read.

While you are at it, check out the blurb from the Tonopah Review, listen to editor Richard Menzies talk about the book and the man on KNPR, and of course, check out what Richard himself says about the book.

More important, though, is the book release part for this book, Thursday, November 17^th, 2011, at Sundance Books and Music.  Details here.

Thank you again to Laura for this wonderful review.  She does great work.