Author: Ron Goulart
Year: 1970
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9780425076477
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The time is a few decades from now, the place what used to be the United States, now disrupted by internal factionalism as well as a short-lived foreign invasion.
Out of this chaotic background Ron Goulart has produced a swift-moving, witty and constantly delightful novel, a story of a future odyssey through:
*The Nixon Institute, where aging former rock stars reminisce about the days when they still had hair;
*the wide-open sin-town of San Rafael, run by the Amateur Mafia (no Italians allowed:;
*Vienna West, a detailed replica of Sigmund Freud's 19th Century city where psychiatric patients live and abreact together;
*the Monterey Mechanical Jazz Festival, featuring the music of pinball machines, jack hammers an Laundromat washers...
All this plus a dozen or two of the oddest characters you're ever likely to meet.
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