Continental Drift

by G. Burton

Basing his work on the experiences of a lifetime spent studiously avoiding anything that might ever be called a mainstream—cultural, social, philosophical, religious, political, literary, artistic, even counter-cultural—the author offers here his own rather singular take on the evolution of the United States during the last decades of the twentieth century. From the Summer of Love to the Me Decade to Morning in America to Slick Willie. He presents his vision in the form of fiction, through an episodic tale about a man wandering the backroads of a fast-fading American Dream. Hitchhiking and hopping freights and picking up what jobs he might along the way. Hanging out with hippies and hoboes, with seamen and other assorted misfits, with small-town denizens, with recent immigrants, as he drifts from one end of the continent to the other.

700 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 3, 2018