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Richard Poe
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By:
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T. C. Boyle
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Critic reviews
"Boyle understands the multitudinous, sneaky ways innocence insulates itself from ambiguity, but in this novel he leavens that cynical insight with genuine sweetness. While the Day-Glo of the hippie era has long since faded, this novel brings it all back home, and helps us see how much in the American grain it all really was." (Publishers Weekly
"Boyle captures the drop-out-and-get-back-to-the-land spirit of the era, as well as the chill and isolation of the Alaska winter, with a clarity that has earned him a reputation as one of our best writers. Highly recommended." (Library Journal)
"An accomplished, versatile storyteller and discerning social observer, Boyle writes with enthralling momentum and seductive detail." (Booklist)
"Boyle may be the most entertaining writer in America." (Boston Globe)
"One of the most inventive and verbally exuberant writers of his generation." (The New York Times)
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Masterful, but –
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A good listen
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For the listener who likes realistic fiction, I strongly recommend it.
Best T.C. Boyle
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Great Story and Great Reader
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The year is 1970 or so, and a Northern California hippie commune is in danger of eviction by a local government that doesn’t care for a constant diet of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. What do they do? Head for Alaska, of course. Their rattletrap caravan takes them north, where their tragicomic story merges with that of a harsh frontier town that will test their greenhorn innocence in the bitter Arctic winter. It is a place where barnstorming bush pilots don’t paint their airplanes, because paint would add a few pounds better suited to hauling cargo at usurious prices.
T. C. Boyle is an unpredictable virtuoso of historical fiction, and this is among his best. Richard Poe doesn’t really do voices much, but he’s an expressive reader who reminds me of my father, reading Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” to my brothers and me when we were small. Together, author and narrator team up for a laugh-out-loud yet harrowing account, when a cult of peace and love comes up against the bleak reality of racism, jealousy and betrayal—not to mention survival—in the long northern darkness.
Utopia Meets the Arctic
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The story it amusing and all the more so because of the narration. I can still hear the narrator in my head describing Ronnie, or Pan and just delivering his inner voice so damned well.
One of my favorite TC Boyle books
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Like many of the other reviewers here, I too was a young person during the 60’s and 70’s. Like looking at an old photo album of ourselves, I was personally embarrassed to be shown just how clueless many of our ‘enlightened’ generation really were. Boyle not only captures much of the lingo used, but many of the misdirected values and attitudes of that time. And so it went with the ‘brothers and sisters’ of Drop City, an agglomeration of individuals proclaiming peace and love, while really wanting not much more than plenty of sex, drugs and rock and roll.
This book is really two stories of two different worlds, that end up strangely colliding and, somehow, coexisting. The hippie commune in sunny California is evicted by their fed-up neighbors and relocates to wild, forbidding and frigid Alaska. They yearned to get back to nature and live in the bounty of Mother Earth. They soon learn that the nature in Alaska is about as maternal as the savage wolverines who there reside. And winters with temperatures of sixty below zero where sunlight is no more than a rumor, might send even the most alienated peacenik scrambling back to the bosom of the plastic establishment and the creature-comforts of civilization.
This book is a story of the individuals from opposite environments and contradicting values living in very uncomfortable conditions. I got the very clear message that condition of being human is really the overwhelming common denominator.
Good story!
Peace and Love?
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Characters to Care about
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Magnificent, compelling: A masterpiece
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