Drop City, T.C. Boyle
Drop City, T.C. Boyle
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Drop City

Author: T.C. Boyle

Narrator: Richard Poe

Unabridged: 18 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/06/2008


Synopsis

It is the 70's, at the height of flower power. Star has just joined Drop City, a hippie commune in sunny California devoted to peace, free love and living the simple life. For Star and her companions, Drop City is utopia, a place free of the restrictions of the outside world. But underneath the music, drugs and transcendent bliss, Star slowly realises that tensions and sexual rivalries could soon tear the community apart...

About T.C. Boyle

T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short-story writer. Since the mid-1970s, he has published eighteen novels and twelve collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988 for his third novel, World’s End, and the Prix Médicis étranger (France) in 1995 for The Tortilla Curtain. His novel Drop City was a finalist for the 2003 National Book Award. Most recently, he has been the recipient of the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, the Henry David Thoreau Prize, and the Jonathan Swift Prize for satire. He is a Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Southern California and lives in Santa Barbara.


Reviews

The evil side of the happy go lucky flower power unicorn rainbow time that wasn´t as peaceful as one might suppose. What if hippies weren´t 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......more

Goodreads review by MJ

The collapse of the sixties free love movement is perhaps the greatest defeat Western society has endured. The flower children believed in a world unshackled to government control and white-collar slavery, they believed in an autonomous collective of free love, drugs and sex. By listening to the Doo......more