[Gocamino] Book aboout "The Way"

[blaroli at aol.com]

Hello you all,
Below is information (and a review) of Martin Sheen's book about the Way mentioned in my message of yesterday.
I found the book engrossing and moving. The revelations of the inter dynamics, intimacy and yes, love, between a father and son are not often written about so clearly and simple.
Perhaps someone should make a movie about the book.
I liked the book so much that I read it twice, back to back.....
By the way, I would like to give away a bunch of books about the Camino... most in English but some in Spanish.  (They are not doing any good gathering dust in the corner of my library). If anyone here would like to have them I'll send them on.
Hugs!

Rosina









 
 
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      Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son
byMartin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Hope Edelman (Goodreads Author) (With)

In this remarkable dual memoir, film legend Martin Sheen and accomplished actor/filmmaker Emilio Estevez recount their lives as father and son. In alternating chapters—and in voices that are as eloquent as they are different—they tell stories spanning more than fifty years of family history, and reflect on their journeys into two different kinds of faith. At twenty-one, still a struggling actor living hand to mouth, Martin and his wife, Janet, welcomed their firstborn, Emilio, an experience of profound joy for the young couple, who soon had three more children: Ramon, Charlie, and Renée. As Martin’s career moved from stage to screen, the family moved from New York City to Malibu, while traveling together to film locations around the world, from Mexico for Catch-22 to Colorado for Badlands to the Philippines for the legendary Apocalypse Now shoot. As the firstborn, Emilio had a special relationship with Martin: They often mirrored each other’s passions and sometimes clashed in their differences. After Martin and Emilio traveled together to India for the movie Gandhi, each felt the beginnings of a spiritual awakening that soon led Martin back to his Catholic roots, and eventually led both men to Spain, from where Martin’s father had emigrated to the United States. Along the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage path, Emilio directed Martin in their acclaimed film, The Way, bringing three generations of Estevez men together in the region of Spain where Martin’s father was born, and near where Emilio’s own son had moved to marry and live.

With vivid, behind-the-scenes anecdotes of this multitalented father’s and son’s work with other notable actors and directors, Along the Way is a striking, stirring, funny story—a family saga that readers will recognize as universal in its rebellions and regrets, aspirations and triumphs. Strikingly candid, searchingly honest, this heartfelt portrait reveals two strong-minded, admirable men of many important roles, perhaps the greatest of which are as fathers and sons.(less)

Hardcover, 432 pages
            Published        May 8th 2012         by Atria Books                          (first published May 1st 2012)