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The Journey of a Father and Son
Free Press
May 2012
On Sale: May 8, 2012
352 pages
ISBN: 1451643683
EAN: 9781451643688
Kindle: B005FLPMK2
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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.
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