Ervin Shane and the Sunshine Motel

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“The miracle of loneliness is that sooner or later it makes you act otherwise.” Illuminated by extraordinary tenderness, Ervin Shane and The Sunshine Motel is a poignant tale about origins and endings told in the plain speak of a man tired of living a hand-to-mouth existence in the racist, post-WWII south. In 1951, Ervin Shane boarded a Greyhound headed to wherever the winter sun was warmer. A thousand miles later, a layover in a West Texas bus station and a chance browsing of the want-ads led him to curtail his journey and take up as the custodian of The Sunshine Motel - a neon-bathed oasis situated halfway between somewhere and somewhere else, offering wayfarers, “…clean sheets, a warm blanket and a soft pillow for those lost souls bound for nowhere in particular.” And so begins the chronicle and construction of a humble life; a beautiful and haunting story of classic simplicity; a story of indefinite echoes. ©2023 Mark Warford (P)2023 Mark Warford Duration - 6h 35m. Author - Mark Warford. Narrator - John Lee. Published Date - Monday, 23 January 2023. Copyright - © 2023 Mark Warford ©.

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English