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Finally, a novel about the radical underground from one who was there. Jonathan Lerner, a founding member of the Weather Underground, tells an authentic story of politics and passion.It's 1970, the era of transgressive sex,psychedelic drugs and violent revolution. Alex gives an impassioned speech that incites a deadly campus riot; he and Doug take off on the run. Chicago, Paris, London, Havana. Highways and hideouts, cocktail bars and cruising spots, all-night drives, secret meetings and a bank heist that goes spectacularly wrong... Meanwhile Alex uses this clandestine interlude to uncover his own hidden truth.Pretended identities, twisted secrets â but coming out gay and whole on the other side. âThat awful year,â Alex will reflect much later, âwhen a benign impulse to remake the world led me to do so many strange and regrettable things.â This is a gripping story of the knotted psychology beneath political action, and one man's struggle to find his honest self.… (meer)
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Alex has a voice people love, low and seductive and reassuring. That's why it was Alex who addressed the crowd...
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Barry gives all he's got, and knows to expect less in return. Barry is not naive. He teaches in college, dealing with callow boys every day. He was a glowing, self-absorbed, newly out gay boy oozing sex himself once, and remembers well—down a fifteen year corridor in time—how the world revolved around him then.
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Finally, a novel about the radical underground from one who was there. Jonathan Lerner, a founding member of the Weather Underground, tells an authentic story of politics and passion.It's 1970, the era of transgressive sex,psychedelic drugs and violent revolution. Alex gives an impassioned speech that incites a deadly campus riot; he and Doug take off on the run. Chicago, Paris, London, Havana. Highways and hideouts, cocktail bars and cruising spots, all-night drives, secret meetings and a bank heist that goes spectacularly wrong... Meanwhile Alex uses this clandestine interlude to uncover his own hidden truth.Pretended identities, twisted secrets â but coming out gay and whole on the other side. âThat awful year,â Alex will reflect much later, âwhen a benign impulse to remake the world led me to do so many strange and regrettable things.â This is a gripping story of the knotted psychology beneath political action, and one man's struggle to find his honest self.
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