Just Go Down to the Road

Just Go Down to the Road: A Memoir of Trouble and Travel / 282-page paperback / 5.5" x 8.5" / ISBN 9781589881648 / Publication Date: 5/3/2022 "An engrossing account of a young man discovering what he wants to do with his life."—Michael Dirda, Washington Post"An enthralling and compulsively readable memoir: James Campbell is a marvelously charming teller of his improbable progress from high school dropout to literary critic and intellectual. There is no resisting the humor and modesty, the humanity and tenderness of his vivid account."—Phillip Lopate, author of To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary NonfictionIn Just Go Down to the Road, James Campbell, a native Glaswegian, recounts his years as an incipient juvenile delinquent (arrested for stealing books!) and his young adulthood spent “on the road” in the early 1970s. After dropping out of school at fifteen, Campbell struggled with family relations and factory work. Soon he threw it all off and went traveling—through Europe, the