Emotionally terse and sharply observed, this novel is a journey through the post-Vietnam west coast, where the travelling is still easy and being on the road is still good--but now it's not a matter of listening to bop on the radio and smoking joyful joints ??? la Kerouac. It's moving drugs by Greyhound bus across the border for the mob. It's staving off panic attacks at the first sign of intimacy. It's sex without emotion, hallucinatory hospitals, broken-down vets, and the murder of your own mother as a merciful release ...
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Emotionally terse and sharply observed, this novel is a journey through the post-Vietnam west coast, where the travelling is still easy and being on the road is still good--but now it's not a matter of listening to bop on the radio and smoking joyful joints ??? la Kerouac. It's moving drugs by Greyhound bus across the border for the mob. It's staving off panic attacks at the first sign of intimacy. It's sex without emotion, hallucinatory hospitals, broken-down vets, and the murder of your own mother as a merciful release into the little of untouched nature that is left.
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