Chasing Shadows: Memoirs of a Sixties Survivor
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Book Overview
CHASING SHADOWS tells the story of a young man who pays a heavy price for pursuing his own dream. When he announces that he intends to be a poet instead of a doctor, his working class family thinks... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1877946753
ISBN13:9781877946752
Release Date:January 1996
Publisher:Permanent Press (NY)
Length:197 Pages
Weight:0.96 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"
Customer Reviews
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Chasing Shadows
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
This book covers the early era of the Lower East Side in the 60's in New York. Grim, but true. Only book I've found covering this start to the history of LES. This book is just like it was - I was there and know.
No book, fiction or non, has had a greater impact on my life
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
At just under 200 pages, Wilcox's memoir should be praised for it's ability to evoke such extreme levels of emotion from the reader. He makes us laugh, cry, love, and hate, and does so in a way that few authors can. His smooth yet unpredictable storytelling is eclipsed only by the situations themselves. Wilcox effortlessly carries the reader through the merciless streets of New York City in his quest for salvation and identity in the turbulent sixties. His memoir is an enormous literary achievement- and his survival is nothing short of triumphant.
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