Bittersweet: A Coming of Age Historical Romance
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9781948664035
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BITTERSWEET CAPTURES the zeitgeist of BITTERSWEET1960: America transitioning from the gray decadeof Eisenhower and McCarthy to JFK andCamelot; The House on Un-American ActivitiesCommittee versus the flourishing Beatnikcounterculture. Its two protagonists, Rennyand Max, students at Berkeley, flirt with Beatpoetry, Allen Ginsberg and Kenneth Rexroth,Bebop, and student led civil rights demonstrations.They participate in the SLATE organizedanti-HUAC demonstration turned riot at SanFrancisco City Hall. Police billyclubs changetheir lives forever. To escape the withering cultureof night sticks, sexual repression and censorship,they sail to France, land of the Enlightenmentand sexual liberation. There, they shedtheir adolescence and become young men. Thereader travels with them into an incandescentworld of vivid characters, sex and love.
Author: Lloyd Free |
Publisher: Sugarhill Press |
Publication Date: Apr 28, 2018 |
Number of Pages: 350 pages |
Language: English |
Binding: Paperback |
ISBN-10: 1948664038 |
ISBN-13: 9781948664035 |
Bittersweet: A Coming of Age Historical Romance
$14.95
$12.60
Sale 16%
BITTERSWEET CAPTURES the zeitgeist of BITTERSWEET1960: America transitioning from the gray decadeof Eisenhower and McCarthy to JFK andCamelot; The House on Un-American ActivitiesCommittee versus the flourishing Beatnikcounterculture. Its two protagonists, Rennyand Max, students at Berkeley, flirt with Beatpoetry, Allen Ginsberg and Kenneth Rexroth,Bebop, and student led civil rights demonstrations.They participate in the SLATE organizedanti-HUAC demonstration turned riot at SanFrancisco City Hall. Police billyclubs changetheir lives forever. To escape the withering cultureof night sticks, sexual repression and censorship,they sail to France, land of the Enlightenmentand sexual liberation. There, they shedtheir adolescence and become young men. Thereader travels with them into an incandescentworld of vivid characters, sex and love.
Author: Lloyd Free |
Publisher: Sugarhill Press |
Publication Date: Apr 28, 2018 |
Number of Pages: 350 pages |
Language: English |
Binding: Paperback |
ISBN-10: 1948664038 |
ISBN-13: 9781948664035 |