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A coming-of-age memoir about one man's miscues and false starts as he enters the world after college and attempts to answer the timeless question of who he is, while contemplating what role music, love, work, drugs, money, and books will play in his life --Provided by publisher. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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"'Mark,' said Deidre, 'this is my friend Pelops Kazanjian. He's brilliant. You'll interest each other. I have to go to bed.' She dropped Pelops's invisible chain and walked away."
Thus began one of the most influential acquaintanceships of the young Edmundson's life. I don't call it a friendship because Edmundson was always, it seemed, the disciple, the apprentice, while Pelops was the teacher-guide. It was Pelops who got Edmundson jobs working security and stage crew for major concerts in New York City and New Jersey by some of the biggest names in 1970s pop music. A close enounter with an older Grace Slick of the recently renamed Jefferson Starship is only one highlight of those days, which also featured lugging amps and chasing gate crashers at concerts by such luminaries as Pink Floyd and The Grateful Dead. Pelops's main effort, however, is to convert Edmundson to the ways of Engels and Marx, to join the People's revolution. Indeed, Pelops takes on such mythic significance in Edmundson's coming of age that I began to wonder if he was even a real person.
There are other phases in Edmundson's checkered attempts at post-college self-education. He drives a taxi in New York City. He becomes a devotee of Robert Altman films. He does drugs. He moves to Colorado to attend Outward Bound. He's a bouncer in a Massachusetts disco. And, finally, he joins the faculty of the Woodstock Country School in Vermont, an educational holdover from the sixties which brought to mind Robert Rimmer's notorious novel, THE HARRAD EXPERIMENT. There, he casts about for his true place in life, while also enjoying skinny-dipping in Buffy's Pond with his pot-smoking, sexually liberated students.
There is a kind of ornate grandiosity in Edmundson's writing style, coupled with a constant peppering of philosophical and literary allusions, all of which can have the unfortunate effect of keeping his reader always at arm's length. In any case, more than once he made me feel just a bit of a dumbbell. The new headmaster at the Woodstock Country School once accused Edmundson of being a "hustling intellectual." Maybe that was it. I was being "hustled." The truth is though, I didn't mind. I enjoyed Edmundson's story too damn much to feel insulted - or hustled. As a wholly unique and entertaining record of finding one's place in the lost decade that was the seventies, this book succeeds admirably. ( )