Have Mercy - Couverture souple

Sandefjord, G P

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1737685000 ISBN 13 : 9781737685005

Editeur : House of Jyze Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

Have Mercy is a tumultuous love story set in 1970-71 San Francisco at the height of the antiwar/counterculture era. Glen, our Chicago-born white-guy narrator, meets Valerie, French/Vietnamese Eurasian poet and granddaughter of a French colonial governor of Vietnam, at a "Human Chain to Stop the War." Sparks fly. Values clash. Glen and a friend start up an underground newspaper near a huge Bay Area air base that serves as the major transshipment point for Vietnam. Val joins the fray. All sorts of hot-button issues, both personal and societal, get pushed and pounded. Stuff happens! Government surveillance, phony traffic stops and drug busts, factional tensions, family uproars, racial incidents, feminist and gay protests, strikes, demos, riots, knife attacks, suicide attempts and much, much more. Also lots of good times: partying and sexual-revolution escapades -- freakiness and kinkiness galore (sexual explicitness warning right here) -- and all this amid a whole lotta swirling weed smoke, and on the soundtrack the outasight (most definitely not to say outa-hearing) music of the era. But in the end it's more and more about that wild love story. For a riveting minute things do get a bit tense. Nasty even. Or say impassioned. And then the ending itself is quite simply double-dip gangbusters with a buncha cherries on top. And swaddling those, a squirt or two of, yes, MERCY. To savor!

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

A graduate of Amherst College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, G.P. Sandefjord gigged widely for years as a college English teacher, newspaper reporter/editor, and adult literacy instructor, to name but a few, before stumbling upon "career day-job nirvana" as nightscoper for a court reporting firm. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: House of Jyze Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1737685000
• ISBN 13: 9781737685005
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 686
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible