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Book Overview
Ed McClanahan's hilarious classic introduces us to writers and revolutionaries, hippies and honkies, gurus and go-go girls, barkeeps and barflies, as well as Carlos Toadvine, aka Little Enis, the All-American Left-Handed Upside-down Guitar Player, among the characters he has encountered in thirty peripatetic years of wandering the fringes of the academic and literary worlds -- "working the Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing circuit" -- from his native Kentucky to the West Coast and back again. Book jacket.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0140093117
ISBN13:9780140093117
Release Date:December 1986
Publisher:Penguin Group
Length:195 Pages
Weight:0.36 lbs.
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
A Blast From The Past
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
An overage hippie I met in Frankfort, Kentucky recommended this book to me at the infamous Downtown Bar and Grill - no grill, just bar. I will be in Frankfort next month and I will thank the gentleman for recommending this book. It takes me back to my youth, after my return from Vietnam and fleeting involvement with the Left while an undergraduate. The girls were easier and a little hairier than mainstream chicks. McClanahan hits the Redneck and Leftist cultures right on their noggins - a wonderful and funny read. The essay on the Panther gathering is great.
"Famous People" made me laugh and made me cry. . .
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
If you ever feel nostalgic for the '60s - or any other good times and special friendships in your life - read this book. McClanahan is funny as can be, generous, and sentimental. You can only love it!
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