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About the Book

"Beast" is a pure innocent with one simple goal-to become an expert on the Middle Ages. He comes to Berkeley, the Cathedral of Learning, in 1971, a time of political upheaval, hallucinogenic drugs, group sex, and electric, acid, psychedelic, mind-bending rock and roll. On his quest for meaning he hangs out with a Harley-riding dwarf, a raven-haired Gothic artists' model, a sorority girl turned nymphomaniac, and the heir to a family of French aristocrats with a bloody history dating back to before Joan of Arc. Beast soon discovers that he can't live in the past but has to embrace the present, with its traps and land mines and the horrors of contemporary society-death by motorcycle and bad acid trips. The world is exploding, but students still go to classes, fall in love, get laid, study in libraries, win awards, even graduate. The country is on fire, and Berkeley supplies the fuel.

About the Author :
Jack Remick has worked underground as a tunnel rat. He's been a social worker, a school teacher, a bus driver, a retail clerk, a turkey de-beaker, and a house painter. In the early 60s he ran off to South America a few times where, with his partner Ramon-a Chilean expatriate-he bummed around as a teacher, smuggler, and general lowlife. He returned to the States under a red flag when the US consul in Cali, Colombia, booted him out rather than renew his passport. He traveled extensively in South America from Peru to Colombia. He lived in Mexico, where his family of silver miners worked in operations that never made money but sounded good in print.

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"Covering much the same cultural terrain as Jack Kerouac's classic On the Road, The Book of Changes follows a young narrator's coming-of-age in Berkeley. Yet Jack Remick's take on the cultural revolution humanizes familiar material. Beast, the narrator, starts off eager for initiation into the Berkeley scene: the university, the drugs, the 'broads, ' the art. But unlike Kerouac's protagonist who rides from town to town, indifferent to and unaccountable for the consequences of his choices, Remick gives us a conscientious young man. Beast sticks around long enough to see the aftermath of drug addiction and free love. And the trail of wreckage deeply affects him. As the deaths and broken relationships tally up in his friends' lives, Beast develops a more honest, compassionate perspective than Kerouac's characters ever achieved. A moving tale of one young man's struggle to carve out his own dignity and truth in the midst of radical turbulence." -M.C. Easton, author of The Gods of Kittitas County


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781603811866
  • Publisher: Coffeetown
  • Publisher Imprint: Coffeetown
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 306
  • Series Title: 3 California Quartet
  • Weight: 421 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1603811869
  • Publisher Date: 15 Oct 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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