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Bittersweet
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Free's incredible imagery is prominent throughout the novel . . . The character development of the main characters and many of the side characters is outstanding and it was impossible to put down . . .
THE PRAIRIES BOOK REVIEW
An engaging coming-of-age story written with subtle humour and great panache...
"This book is definitely one of my favorites of all times which is saying A LOT. I didn't want to stop reading! This story gripped me right from the start and never let me go. The author has a way of making the reader feel the very essence of each character's emotions; I felt like I was with an old friend who was telling me the story of his life. . ." Brown Bettie
BITTERSWEET captures the zeitgeist of 1960: America transitioning from the gray decade of Eisenhower and McCarthy to JFK and Camelot; The House on Un-American Activities Committee versus the flourishing Beatnik counterculture. Its two protagonists, Renny and Max, students at Berkeley, flirt with Beat poetry, Allen Ginsberg and Kenneth Rexroth, Bebop, and student led civil rights demonstrations. They join the SLATE organized anti-HUAC demonstration turned riot at San Francisco City Hall. The police billy clubs change their lives forever. To escape a withering culture of night sticks, sexual repression and censorship, they sail to France, land of the Enlightenment and sexual liberation where they shed their adolescence and become young men. Join them on their epic, unforgettable journey into an incandescent world of vivid characters, romance, sex and love.
Don't Miss Out. An Unforgettable Reading Experience! Grab your copy now.
Free's incredible imagery is prominent throughout the novel . . . The character development of the main characters and many of the side characters is outstanding and it was impossible to put down . . .
THE PRAIRIES BOOK REVIEW
An engaging coming-of-age story written with subtle humour and great panache...
"This book is definitely one of my favorites of all times which is saying A LOT. I didn't want to stop reading! This story gripped me right from the start and never let me go. The author has a way of making the reader feel the very essence of each character's emotions; I felt like I was with an old friend who was telling me the story of his life. . ." Brown Bettie
BITTERSWEET captures the zeitgeist of 1960: America transitioning from the gray decade of Eisenhower and McCarthy to JFK and Camelot; The House on Un-American Activities Committee versus the flourishing Beatnik counterculture. Its two protagonists, Renny and Max, students at Berkeley, flirt with Beat poetry, Allen Ginsberg and Kenneth Rexroth, Bebop, and student led civil rights demonstrations. They join the SLATE organized anti-HUAC demonstration turned riot at San Francisco City Hall. The police billy clubs change their lives forever. To escape a withering culture of night sticks, sexual repression and censorship, they sail to France, land of the Enlightenment and sexual liberation where they shed their adolescence and become young men. Join them on their epic, unforgettable journey into an incandescent world of vivid characters, romance, sex and love.
Don't Miss Out. An Unforgettable Reading Experience! Grab your copy now.
262 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 25, 2018
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