JUST ONE MORE DRIVE
The true story of a stuttering homosexual and his race car
Author: James Robert O’Brien
Take one shy Irishman—a recovering stutterer and a closeted homosexual—and transport him from Dublin to Vancouver in search of sci-fi stardom and himself. This honest, uplifting and painfully funny memoir is about love, soapboxes and why you should never lie on national TV. It’s the story of how the Beast that almost killed Robert ended up saving his life.
- Non-fiction
- ISBN 978-1-7751659-4-1 (softcover)
- ISBN 978-1-7751659-5-8 (html)
- 244 pp, 5.5″ x 8.5″
- Published 2017
- CAD $ 16.95
Note: New, revised and updated edition being published September 2021.
I believe a good autobiography should be searingly honest. Just One More Drive, Robert O’Brien’s intimate narrative has this quality in spades. He brings the reader on a journey through the trials of childhood stuttering that lingers into adulthood with stifling results. We feel his bewilderment when his sexual orientation dawns and his journey towards embracing his sexuality takes up much of the book. The author’s assertion that being gay may not have been his choice but how he relates to it is, was uplifting. I highly recommend it.