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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. "Chicago, August 1968," the man was saying. "A very troubled time, but perhaps a wonderful time as well. Still, to send a soul into the past is an act of desperation. Helena and I wouldn't be sending you there if you weren't our best hope. Maybe last hope."In the Christian Republic of America, Leader Simon Magnus has imposed draconian punishments, including death by stoning for blasphemers, adulterers, and declared Enemies of Freedom. Magnus, whose Church of the Revealed Spirit, which began as a 1960s cult, was about to launch a nationwide purge of his enemies, real and imagined, beginning with his nemesis, Helena McKechnie, who had once helped him found his church.Thomas Leirmont, an obscure professor of medieval history at a small Philadelphia college, may be the only one to undo the evil--as Helena, his former lover writes, to "make Simon's reign little more than a fleeting nightmare."But to do so, he must return to Chicago, and from there to Convention Week, 1968, when he was a youth reporter for an Indianapolis newspaper, and Helena was in hiding from her ex-lover SimonIt was a time and place, Thomas was reminded, where Helena was "21, drop-dead gorgeous, and madly in love with you. Not too many people get a second chance, but you get to live that crazy week all over again." But at the end of the week, Helena had returned to Simon, where she would build up the church that turned the United States into the Christian Republic."Helena never would tell me what happened," Thomas is told, "but she was furious with you. When she was angry, she could lash out with psychic energy. But the effort took so much out of her that she was vulnerable to outside influences. I think Simon, or someone more powerful, got control of her during that weakness. That flash of anger was her terrible mistake, and perhaps a mistake of your own led to it." If it was his mistake, he might be able to undo it.it was also a place where corrupt policemen, neo-Nazis, and a powerful enemy allied to the Prince of Hell were doing their worst to make sure Helena returned to Simon and his cult.And Thomas would have only his 18-year-old memory to work with, enhanced only by a more mature soul. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. "Remember what Kenneth Rexroth said," shouted poet Stanley Rasmussen, as the police led him out of the coffeehouse. 'Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense-the creative act.'" It was Saturday night, October 3, 1959, at the Bridge of Sighs Caf in Venice. Venice West, that is. Where St. Mark's is a rundown hotel, the Doges are a street gang, and all but a few of the canals have been filled in. The place LIFE Magazine called "Beatsville USA."My name is Gershom Davies. Venice is my home, too. I don't look or talk like the Beats-at least not the way most Americans believe they do. The Beats don't much care how you dress or talk. Maybe that's one reason I live here. I'm a stringer for the Los Angeles Gazette. It's piecework, paid by the column-inch. In the old days they used a string to measure copy, and the name stuck. At least that's how the story goes. The raid on the coffeehouse wasn't the first, and I'm sure it wouldn't be the last. The Bridge could expect periodic raids for staging poetry readings without a police permit. But this was the first time the vice squad actually arrested the main performer. Rasmussen's arrest would have been worth a small story in itself. What made it big was that he was married to Rochelle Bent. You couldn't visit a newsstand without seeing her face-her pale skin contrasting with those mahogany-brown eyes and all that auburn hair. Clara Bow of the Beats. The thinking man's crush. Yeah, I was crazy about Rochelle and I had the advantage of sitting next to her. If only she weren't married to a good friend.But I had a story to write and a mystery to solve: what was Stan trying to say? It turned out somebody else wanted to know as well-somebody who wasn't going to play by the rules. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Riot, you'll like it." It's September, 1972. Richard Nixon is walloping George McGovern in the polls, the Iowa Hawkeyes are looking forward to another losing season, and Student Senate president Sam Arnold has been arrested for murdering a cantankerous old German-American with a British cavalry sword. Judith Vaughan, Student Senate vice president and Sam's ex-lover, doesn't want to sacrifice her studies for student politics, even though her resignation would give a rabble-rouser the acting presidency. It seems the whole university is trying to keep her in office. In desperation the Dean of Students sends her high school sweetheart, back in school after a stint in the Army, to change her mind. So begins her quest to prevent a riot, find out who really killed Hermann Mueller, and decide whether to rekindle her old flame. That is, if somebody doesn't kill her first. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…