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Joseph Clinton | Novelist

Beyond The Utmost Bound is an epic adventure about a teenage outcast that begins in a small Texas town of four roosters, a few stray dogs, not many more residents, and concludes on a park bench in Paris.
Our hero, a 17-year-old salutatorian, leaves everything he has ever known and heads out on a spiritual and life-affirming quest for knowledge and clarity.
An array of eccentric, fun, and quote-worthy characters lead him on a rip-roaring journey through the deserts of spiritual awakenings, over the rapids of romantic queries, up the mountain of philosophical reflection, past the fog of psychedelic mist, down the road of metaphysical happenings, through the air of mystical wonder, and into the badlands and frontiers of the mind.
A journey that might not only determine his fate but ours.

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“A road trip comedy with a mystical twist. Clinton is an engrossing storyteller, delivering action and humor, the writing grand, and wise.”

– IndieReader

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“If Hunter S. Thompson decided to meld together The Alchemist and On The Road into a modern-day classic, this would be it… Fun as Hell!”

– Booknerd

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“A young man’s humorous, rollicking journey unearths a roadmap that solves an evolutionary puzzle of heart, mind, and soul.”

– ADVANCED REVIEW

His Story

Joseph Clinton

After twenty years pursuing other goals, Joseph Clinton found himself without a passion or direction.
A year later while visiting his father in South Texas, they found him.
It was a 100-degree day in a small bar with no air conditioning in an old country town the size of a bus stop.
Four roosters, two dogs, and one truck patrolled the outside – the mayor, the bartender, a bull, a rattlesnake, a bobcat, a hawk, him, his dad, a photo of Willie Nelson and a jukebox full of Hank Williams melodies, the inside.
Several hours and many beers later he had an idea. That night he sat his butt down and wrote the beginning of what he believed to be a short story.
After three years, his butt finally arose out of the chair with his first novel.