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"Outside the Gates of Eden is a powerful piece of work. Shiner writes about music, and the making of music, better than anyone I know. He gets across the tremendous excitement of the early days of rock and roll, the peace movement, Woodstock and the Summer of Love""but also the heartbreak of failure, betrayal, and loss. The prose is terrific, and the sense of time and place is first rate. A brilliant requiem for our generation and all our dreams."
""George R. R. Martin, author of A Game of Thrones
What happened to the idealism of the 1960s? This question has haunted a generation. Outside the Gates of Edenfollows two men from their first meeting in high school to their final destination in the twenty-first century. Alex is torn between his father's business empire and his own artistic yearnings. Cole finds his calling at a Bob Dylan concert in 1965. From the Summer of Love in San Francisco to Woodstock, from campus protests to the SoHo loft scene, from a commune in Virginia to the outlaw country music of Austin, the novel charts the rise and fall of the counterculture""and what came after. Using the music business as a window into half a century, Outside the Gates of Edenis both epic and intimate, starkly realistic and ultimately hopeful, a War and Peace for the Woodstock generation.
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- Title Outside the Gates of Eden
- Author Lewis Shiner
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 880
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Subterranean Press
- ISBN 9781596069008 / 1596069007
- Weight 3 lbs (1.36 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.4 x 2.5 in (23.11 x 16.26 x 6.35 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects United States, Historical fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.54
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- Kirkus Reviews, 03/15/2019, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 03/25/2019, Page 0
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