Brushes with Death: & Brushes with Fame

Life's adventure can be a field of dreams, or a hopscotch of near disasters. A reckless but lucky serial survivor, Nowick Gray relates 66 personal tales of averted death, rewarded by 11 episodes of shaking hands with fame--chance encounters with cultural icons like Allen Ginsberg, Dizzy Gillespie, J. D. Salinger, Colin James.