The Iraq War, two platform divers, a California family, and within that family an intimacy that open the larger stories more deeply still. Cannonball continues in Joseph McElroy's tradition of intricately woven story lines.

Determined to execute the perfect cannonball dive, a boy tries to follow everyone's advice but finally hears Nan, an expert and former champion, who advises doing it his own way

This first book of its kind tells the behind-the-scenes story of the incredibly illegal Cannonball rally. This best seller is now available in paperback!In the early 1970s, Brock Yates, senior editor of Car and Driver Magazine, created the now infamous Cannonball Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash; a flat out, no-holds-barred race from New York City to Redondo Beach, California. Setting out to prove that well trained drivers could safely navigate...

A mad-cap, illegal cross country race is the focus of this car chase comedy.