Bibliograph

Outside the gates of Eden, a novel by Lewis Shiner

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Outside the gates of Eden, a novel by Lewis Shiner

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Outside the gates of Eden

Responsibility statement

a novel by Lewis Shiner

Summary

"What happened to the idealism of the 1960s? This question has haunted a generation. Outside the Gates of Eden follows 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 Eden is both epic and intimate, starkly realistic and ultimately hopeful, a War and Peace for the Woodstock generation"--Publisher's description

Target audience

adult

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