
The Wicker Pensky Chronicles
First Days of the Revolution
Will Slater(Author)
Outskirts Press
Published on 22. June 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
242 pages
978-1-4327-6333-6 (ISBN)
Description
FIRST DAYS OF THE REVOLUTION is the story of a young man coming of age in the early 1960s, before the words ¿hippie¿ and ¿counterculture¿ had been coined, when disillusioned youths were just beginning to reject their culture and follow their own internal compasses.
Wicker Pensky had been unhappy with his life for years: postwar America was prudish and banal, suburbia was spreading across the country like mayonnaise ¿ bland and monotonous, and the excitement of discovery had been sapped from the educational system. Wick wanted to live more freely and creatively than society allowed, and he longed to return to a more natural existence. He dropped out of college, set out to find a more libertarian lifestyle, and landed in the middle of the bohemian underground ¿ freewheeling and rife with eccentric characters. He lived in various utopian communities, including a Walden Two, and ran with a troupe of actors dabbling in Shakespeare and street theater. His experiences and relationships allowed him to finally express and explore his feelings.
Wick¿s observations and insights, salted with humor and peppered with ironies, vividly portray the people he encountered ¿ a growing population of rebels and misfits like himself ¿ and capture the excitement of those revolutionary times.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
310 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4327-6333-6 (9781432763336)
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Person
Will Slater lived in Washington D.C. during the 1960s. Thumbing around the country, he wound up in Colorado, where he still lives.