T. Coraghessan Boyle
Paperback | Pages: 497 pages Rating: 3.85 | 11299 Users | 990 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Drop City |
| ISBN: | 0142003808 (ISBN13: 9780142003800) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Alaska(United States) California(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2003) |
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It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace, free love, and the simple life has decided to relocate to the last frontier—the unforgiving landscape of interior Alaska—in the ultimate expression of going back to the land. Armed with the spirit of adventure and naïve optimism, the inhabitants of “Drop City” arrive in the wilderness of Alaska only to find their utopia already populated by other young homesteaders. When the two communities collide, unexpected friendships and dangerous enmities are born as everyone struggles with the bare essentials of life: love, nourishment, and a roof over one’s head. Rich, allusive, and unsentimental, T.C. Boyle’s ninth novel is a tour de force infused with the lyricism and take-no-prisoners storytelling for which he is justly famous.Define Of Books Drop City
| Title | : | Drop City |
| Author | : | T. Coraghessan Boyle |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 497 pages |
| Published | : | January 27th 2004 by Penguin Books (first published 2003) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction |
Rating Of Books Drop City
Ratings: 3.85 From 11299 Users | 990 ReviewsArticle Of Books Drop City
This book is a gas! I thoroughly enjoyed it. It is hilarious and a great adventure story which you wouldn't expect from a bunch of goofy hippies. There are quite a number of books set around 1970 in counterculture milieus that give us the stories of radical political groups, who live in squats in the cities and who are busy planning abductions or bomb attacks for the good of mankind. Such as 'The good terrorist' by Doris Lessing, or 'My Revolutions' by Hari Kunzu. Fine books, but not hilariousFor me, some novels just blur after putting them down, and I don't remember anything significant about the book (a new friend potentially) I had spent hours with. A lot of crime novels are like that, but with Drop City I recall almost all the plot and the details. Such an interesting book about a class of people whom I especially loathed at the time, until I came back from overseas and got to know a few through work and friends of friends, namely, hippies, political radicals, religious nuts,
4.5 stars. A very entertaining, enjoyable, interesting, plot driven read with well developed, mostly flawed characters. Set in 1970, the story starts in a commune called 'Drop City', located in California on a 47 acre property owned by a 50 year old man named Norm. Apart from Norm, most of the commune members are in their late teens to mid 20s. The commune espouses 'peace and love,' which mostly translates to people having sex with whoever whilst under the influence of drugs. The women generally
This book is quite an achievement. Set in the 1970s in both CA and Alaska. Mr. Boyle got the tenor of the times exactly. Why not 5 stars? I think the book was longer than it needed to be and the cast of characters a bit too large and diffuse. Having said that, the book was a page turner especially once the scene is set and the characters and the story begins to unfold. The descriptions of the wilderness really came alive. It shows how little we know about what it takes to survive in the
I graduated from high school in 1968, the height of the free-love/summer-of-love/hippie movement. And living and growing up in Utah, I always thought that I had missed out on this. I didn't go to San Francisco and live the life-style in Haight Ashbury and Berkeley and no, I didn't make it to Woodstock. But after reading Boyle's superb novel, Drop City, I'm actually glad that I missed out on this misguided movement. The novel takes place in 1970 and alternates between the tale of a California
The evil side of the happy go lucky flower power unicorn rainbow time that wasnt as peaceful as one might suppose.What if hippies werent the friendly, peace-loving, open-minded, tolerant, etc great alternative to normal society, but just as bad as normal people with the difference that they do as if they were sooo alternative and progressive.Building on this plot, Boyle offers another splendid description of the bigotry and mendacity that grows in each society. In this case, it is interesting to
A 70s hippie commune called Drop City gets driven out of California and decides to try making it in Alaska. Wild and crazy! If you've ever dreamed of homesteading in Alaska, take heed and be prepared!Some interesting observations about how human nature played a role in destroying their utopian dream: Though they espoused 'peace and love,' they frequently got into fights--many because, though they said they believed in the concept of 'free love,' jealousy erupted when their current love slept
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