Drop City / T. Coraghessan Boyle.

9780142003800 (pbk.)
0142003808 (pbk.)

New York : Penguin Books, 2004.

English

497 p. ; 20 cm.

PS3552.O932 D76 2004

813.54

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.

Originally published in the United States by Viking Penguin, 2003.

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