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The Best Half of Life

 

Fear and Loathing

of Boca Raton
A Hippies’ Guide to the Second Sixties

by Steven Lewis

$14.95 • 150 pages • 6"x 9" • Tradepaper • Index

 ISBN 1-884956-74-2


 

 

 

 

About this Book

"I can’t be a grandpa. I was at Woodstock!"

 

 

     “With apologies to the late great Lord Buckley and his classic Beatnik paean to Julius Caesar: ‘Hipsters, flipsters and finger poppin’ daddies, knock me your lobes …,’ I have come to celebrate the Sixties, not to bury us.”
     Rest assured there will be no wringing of my newly liver spotted hands, no bemoaning the crow’s feet around my eyes or the creak in my knees. Nor will I take you on some kind of Peter Max-inspired sexagenarian acid trip of earthly delights awaiting all of us as soon as we jump on the mother ship. And, just in case you’re wondering, I am decidedly not offering up the same establishment-driven drivel that crowds the shelves of our mega bookstores: The Five (Seven-Ten-Twelve) Habits of Successful 60-Something CEOs Who Have Figured Out How To Avoid Aging and Death Through Offshore Investment … or The Five (Seven-Ten-Twelve) Gates to the Gloriously Transcendent and Marvelously Revisionist Golden Years.
     And so Steven Lewis begins this funky, friendly riff on the cosmic-and not so cosmic-rhythms of a generation, unlike any other generation. Fear and Loathing of Boca Raton is a bit like the response to a Zen Koan, a mindful extended reflection on the seemingly paradoxical wants and needs of the Question Authority Generation: a guided, self-guided, non-manual manual that captures the spirit and imagination of a spirited and imaginative generation charting uncharted new territory.
     In this fresh and present journey into the second Sixties (way way way out beyond the unholy trinity of Viagra, statins, and early bird specials), you will find resonant and funny and unpredictable licks on everything from post-sixty sex, drugs, and rock and roll to vivid recollections of Vietnam and Woodstock to compellingly impolitic advice about staying hip and relevant into and through the counter-culture’s collective dotage.
     It’s been a long strange trip from the Summer of Love and, like it or not, the times they’ve been a changin’. With a little help from their friends—and this good book—the Age of Aquarius is still far out ahead of them
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About the Author

 

Steven Lewis is a longtime Mentor at SUNY-Empire State College, an instructor at the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute, and active freelance writer with credits from The New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, AARP Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, and Christian Science Monitor. Previous books include Zen and the Art of Fatherhood; The ABC’s of Real Family Values; The Complete Guide for the Anxious Groom.



 

 

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