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Vision-Quest: A Saga of the 1960s
"Some memoirs tell one the story of one person, chronicling important moments in the writer's life--a history of a life once lived. Palul Rideout's memoir, however, is a different, beautiful beast.
I savored every moment of Rideout's incredibly true tale about coming-of-age during the tumultuous "60's counterculture movement and everything that Activism, experimentation with drugs, free love and journeys of both the mind and physical body.
'Vision-Quest' isn't just the account of one man's life--it's bigger than that--this is about the intersection of art and politics, influence and inspiration, family and passion."
-Rachel Leibrock-- writer and editor, Sacramento News and Review
"A wonderful, introspective yet entertaining romp through the 1960s as seen through the eyes and sensitivity of an artist, yet interpreted and recounted by a scientist with a great respect for nature and native culture." -George Winship
Layers of adventure, romance, cultural shock, psychology, philosophy fill this off-beat, but true, journey of awakening in the sixties.
Recently out of college with a degree in Zoology/Chemistry, Palul's adventures in this decade take him beyond the laboratory, from New England to Hawaii, to LA and SF, dense jungles, hot springs, desert lakes, caves, teepees and Mexico; then back across the northern USA to Boston. A war protester and conscientious objector, he escapes the Vietnam War, freaking out the Boston police in the process. He returns in a VW bus to San Francisco by way of the TransCanadian Hwy. His many escapades continue with fragmented romances, LSD, Haight-Ashbury; then again to Oahu and Maui and eventually to the Mountains of Northern California.
Friends and lovers pepper an exciting journey as he searches for beauty and love and meaning.
It is written with self-depreciating humor, yet always a deeper meaning appears to the astute reader. He writes from the perspective of an older man, but selections from some of his fifty-year-old journals are included giving the reader an intimate sense of being there. The journals contain his feelings as well as his adventures.
Included with a number of relevant photos taken during that period are some rare photos of his earlier art works. Throughout his sixties autobiography, we find what lies behind Paul Palul Rideout, the aspiring artist.
I savored every moment of Rideout's incredibly true tale about coming-of-age during the tumultuous "60's counterculture movement and everything that Activism, experimentation with drugs, free love and journeys of both the mind and physical body.
'Vision-Quest' isn't just the account of one man's life--it's bigger than that--this is about the intersection of art and politics, influence and inspiration, family and passion."
-Rachel Leibrock-- writer and editor, Sacramento News and Review
"A wonderful, introspective yet entertaining romp through the 1960s as seen through the eyes and sensitivity of an artist, yet interpreted and recounted by a scientist with a great respect for nature and native culture." -George Winship
Layers of adventure, romance, cultural shock, psychology, philosophy fill this off-beat, but true, journey of awakening in the sixties.
Recently out of college with a degree in Zoology/Chemistry, Palul's adventures in this decade take him beyond the laboratory, from New England to Hawaii, to LA and SF, dense jungles, hot springs, desert lakes, caves, teepees and Mexico; then back across the northern USA to Boston. A war protester and conscientious objector, he escapes the Vietnam War, freaking out the Boston police in the process. He returns in a VW bus to San Francisco by way of the TransCanadian Hwy. His many escapades continue with fragmented romances, LSD, Haight-Ashbury; then again to Oahu and Maui and eventually to the Mountains of Northern California.
Friends and lovers pepper an exciting journey as he searches for beauty and love and meaning.
It is written with self-depreciating humor, yet always a deeper meaning appears to the astute reader. He writes from the perspective of an older man, but selections from some of his fifty-year-old journals are included giving the reader an intimate sense of being there. The journals contain his feelings as well as his adventures.
Included with a number of relevant photos taken during that period are some rare photos of his earlier art works. Throughout his sixties autobiography, we find what lies behind Paul Palul Rideout, the aspiring artist.
279 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 22, 2015
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