Drop City

Author: T. C. Boyle
Category: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780142003800
Format : Paperback
Publisher : Penguin Group USA

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It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace, free love, and the simple life has decided to relocate to the last frontier--the unforgiving landscape of interior Alaska--in the ultimate expression of going back to the land. Armed with the spirit of adventure and naive optimism, the inhabitants of Drop City arrive in the wilderness of Alaska only to find their utopia already populated by other young homesteaders. When the two communities collide, unexpected friendships and dangerous enmities are born as everyone struggles with the bare essentials of life: love, nourishment, and a roof over one's head. Rich, allusive, and unsentimental, T.C. Boyle's ninth novel is a tour de force infused with the lyricism and take-no-prisoners storytelling for which he is justly famous.

Drop City ( ISBN 9780142003800 )

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In T. C. Boyle's ninth novel, a group of homesteaders and commune-dwellers in the most frigid part of Alaska find their placid lives disrupted by the clash of ideas and values. Set in 1970, DROP CITY explores the spaced-out worldview of the counterculture, and the tensions that arise when the political and the personal fail to coincide. In DROP CITY, as Boyle says on his website, "What is at stake is freedom. That and survival." Despite the classically hippie trappings of the novel, Boyle never allows his voluminous cast of characters--who include flower children, draft-dodgers, back-to-the-landers, and macho fur-trappers--to slide into caricature.

The members of the Drop City commune clash with Alaskan homesteaders who live near to where the commune has recently moved, as both groups struggle for love, nourishment, and shelter. By the author of A Friend of the Earth.

Drop City ( ISBN 9780142003800 )

Price : 14 USD
It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace, free love, and the simple life has decided to relocate to the last frontierthe unforgiving landscape of interior Alaskain the ultimate expression of going back to the land. Armed with the spirit of adventure and naïve optimism, the inhabitants of "Drop City" arrive in the wilderness of Alaska only to find their utopia already populated by other young homesteaders. When the two communities collide, unexpected friendships and dangerous enmities are born as everyone struggles with the bare essentials of life: love, nourishment, and a roof over ones head. Rich, allusive, and unsentimental, T.C. Boyles ninth novel is a tour de force infused with the lyricism and take-no-prisoners storytelling for which he is justly famous.

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