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 narrate stories spanning more than
50 years of family history, and reflect on their journeys into two
different kinds of faith.
At 21, 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 Rene. 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 listeners will
recognize as universal in its rebellions and regrets, aspirations and
triumphs. Strikingly candid, searchingly honest, and full of the
immediacy and warmth that can only be added by the authors reading their
story in their own voices, this heartfelt portrait reveals two
strong-minded, admirable men of many important roles, perhaps the
greatest of which are as father and son.
