San Fran '60s: San Francisco and the Birth of the Hippies (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

 "San Fran '60s" San Francisco in the Sixties, the Summer ofLove, the birth of the hippies, experience it for yourself in "San Fran '60s" and its sequel "More San Fran '60s,"collections of autobiographical short stories. San Francisco in the Sixties wasthe epicenter of the Counter Culture, the biggest cultural transformation ofthe second half of the Twentieth Century. Of course, it has had its memoirs andhistories, but this is the only time a participant has used the devices ofliterary fiction to put you there, living it.            "San Fran '60s" is darker, edgier, and more intimate thananything on the subject before. In addition to the requisite sex, drugs, androck 'n roll, there is murder, madness, and God. One of the murders officiallyended the Summer of Love. William Burroughs and Janis Joplin make anappearance, as does Jim Morrison in "More San Fran '60s." LSD and free love,Haight-Ashbury and the Hell's Angels, the Hip and the Straight, it's all inthese stories.  And it all really happened. The stories arebased on author M.W. Jacobs' journals and experiences and there is lessinvention than in most memoirs. He has lived in and around San Francisco since1965 and presents myself, friends, and acquaintances as prime specimens. In theSixties and Seventies, he was a free lance journalist, among other things.            The first story, "TheStreet," is a present-tense, stream-of-expanded-consciousness stroll the lengthof Haight Street at the height of the Summer of Love. In "Unlivable With," acollege love affair beset by a outraged husband and a predatory junkyculminates in a night of sex on LSD. In "Junkie Love," there's a legendaryjunkie burn artist and armed robbery between dealers, and it all culminates ina meeting with William Burroughs. In "Gilroy," three dealers are driving fromSan Francisco to LA in the middle of the night on LSD. They must contend withrednecks at a truck stop as well as demons of their own that emerge in theirhurtling steal cage. "Summer of '66" follows four roommates and assortedcrashers during the all important gestational summer before the Summer of Love. The stories range in tone from comic toharrowing to lyrical. All are interconnected but each is self-contained so theycan be read in any order. These collections could be thought of as a fracturednovel in which even the narrative structure expresses that era.  Now read them and experience it foryourself.