Drop City
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New York : Viking, 2003.
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Book
ISBN
0670031720
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443 pages ; 24 cm.
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Published
New York : Viking, 2003.
Street Date
0302.
Language
English
ISBN
0670031720

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T.C. Boyle has proven himself to be a master storyteller who can do just about anything. But even his most ardent admirers may be caught off guard by his ninth novel, for Boyle has delivered something completely unexpected: a serious and richly rewarding character study that is his most accomplished and deeply satisfying work to date. It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune has decided to relocate to the last frontier the unforgiving landscape of interior Alaska-in the ultimate expression of going back to the land. The novel opposes two groups of characters: Sess Harder, his wife Pamela, and other young Alaskans who are already homesteading in the wilderness and the brothers and sisters of Drop City, who, despite their devotion to peace, free love, and the simple life, find their commune riven by tensions. As these two communities collide, their alliances shift and unexpected friendships and dangerous enmities are born as everyone struggles with the bare essentials of life: love, nourishment, and a roof over one's head. Drop City is not a satire or a nostalgic look at the sixties, though its evocation of the period is presented with a truth and clarity that no book on that era has achieved. This is a surprising book, a rich, allusive, and nonsentimental look at the ideals of a generation and their impact on today's radically transformed world. Above all, it is a novel infused with the lyricism and take-no-prisoners storytelling for which T.C. Boyle is justly famous.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Boyle, T. C. (2003). Drop City . Viking.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Boyle, T. Coraghessan. 2003. Drop City. Viking.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Boyle, T. Coraghessan. Drop City Viking, 2003.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Boyle, T. Coraghessan. Drop City Viking, 2003.

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