Bandit Dreams & Beyond

A Memoir

By: Victoria Bolt

Narrated by: Victoria Bolt

Decatur, Illinois, 1972. Seven-year-old tomboy Victoria Bolt sneaks among the tables at her mother’s Bunco game, where housewives are tittering over a magazine spread. Though Victoria couldn’t have imagined what was on those pages that day, Smokey and the Bandit-era Burt Reynolds would soon change the course of her life for good.

In Bandit Dreams & Beyond, former stuntwoman Bolt shares how she escaped a volatile and violent home life to make movies with her childhood crush, Burt Reynolds, in 1980s and ’90s Hollywood. There are long-haul truckers, narrowly missed punches, family dysfunction and unconditional love, and appearances by BR himself. This is a Middle American fairy tale set to John Cougar Mellencamp in a smoke-filled bar. This is a shoutout to listeners who grew up on the champagne wishes and caviar dreams of the '80s. This is an action-adventure love story, filled with laughter and heartache—and yes, the memoirist does all her own stunts.

A story reminiscent of The Glass Castle and The Tender Bar, Bandit Dreams & Beyond has nerve to spare and a whole lot of heart.

©2022 Victoria Bolt (P)2022 Victoria Bolt

Phenomenal!!!

Amazing story! Well written and well read!

Will definitely be listening to the audio book again!

Compliments to the author/narrator!!
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Didn't want to stop listening!

i laughed, I cried,! She is grateful, humble, yet determined to tell her story, which is a page turner! Victoria is easy to listen to and let's the listener feel the emotion with her words. Thank you for sharing. Where's the movie Vic?

Very moving memoir

Victoria Bolt is so real and down to earth with her memoir. I loved having the author be the narrator. Definitely worth your time with this touching story. I can’t stop thinking about it