Carol Gamewell, a Navy veteran from Vietnam, returns to Manhattan in the late 1960s in search of his "Peaceable Kingdom" but finds instead the people of lofts, storefronts, and cheap hotels: junkies, hookers, johns, fairies, bums, hippies, but especially young women on the loose. Tindall's Carol sees his Manhattan with a poet's eye, blending realistic detail with lines of poetry and passages of dramatic dialogue.
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Carol Gamewell, a Navy veteran from Vietnam, returns to Manhattan in the late 1960s in search of his "Peaceable Kingdom" but finds instead the people of lofts, storefronts, and cheap hotels: junkies, hookers, johns, fairies, bums, hippies, but especially young women on the loose. Tindall's Carol sees his Manhattan with a poet's eye, blending realistic detail with lines of poetry and passages of dramatic dialogue.
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