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Season of the Witch
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
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Summary
“One of the best and most convincing novels written so far about the lifestyle of the Woodstock generation.” (Publishers Weekly)
It’s the fall of 1969, and Gloria Random’s best friend John has been called up for the draft. To escape it, they decide to run away from their Midwest town and their mundane lives. Renaming themselves Witch and Roy, they head to New York City in search of Witch’s biological father. Landing in the East Village, they are pulled into a community of drug use, mystical rituals, and sexual experimentation as they try to hide deeper and deeper from the realities they left behind.
James Leo Herlihy’s third novel captures the mood and grooves of late-60s New York at the height of the anti-war movement and the counterculture revolution. With his trademark wit and insight, Herlihy brings together a colorful cast of characters ripped right from the heart of one of the most turbulent eras in American history.
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- Martin
- 23-01-19
A Superb Listen
The narration brings this truly to life, however the book itself has a lot to offer, depth, interesting ideas, great characters that are believable.
A lot of the time I only listen to books without a great deal of depth for amusement, but this is both fun and stimulating of thought, asks a lot of questions and answers some.
Certain ideas, such as the decline of capitalism into merely making money so one does not need to work or trying to grab without producing anything of value have been seen in UK politics. Ed Milliband, for example and even Theresa May to a degree. There is a validity to those arguments, although fixing the problem is less simple.
The idea of limited drug use intended to raise one's spiritual state. There is an element of workability in that although it can be a risky thing to do. But it is better than what happens today, where drug use is rife and uncontrolled by any idea of spiritual betterment.
I have a certain sympathy for the ideas of this time. The idea of being at peace and comfortable with other people, of a deep-close, supportive community. It is easy to ridicule 'hippies' or 'peace signs' and the like, but although a revolution didn't occur, there is something to learn from it. In this story the main character can be said to become an adult in the process. It starts with making her own decision to leave and ends with her working out what's right and true for her.
Today, the idea of abundance is just as relevant - adequate, food, shelter for everyone. Even in the UK, record numbers have nowhere to live. Over years house prices have been allowed to rise without adequate building and now even renting easts up huge amounts of a person's wage. Working more, and having less and yet governments are terrified to stop selling weapons to dodgy regimes.
One can say that counterculture was an attempt to fix this kind of thing, albeit that it didn't perhaps provide more than interesting experiences to people in the end.
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