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(More customer reviews)This is a novel set in the heart of America, the Ohio valley, during the tumultuous 60's. The characters are homespun trailer park folk and the background is a tapestry of rhythmn and blues, rock and roll, incense, patchouli oil, Elvis, and blue jeans worn too tight.
The book starts off with a bang (Son's mother is stalked by space aliens). Along the way the reader is treated to lower class hysteria, white bread and processed sausages, cheap 3.2 beer drunk by women who live half their lives in hair curlers and bath robes, teens bursting with pimples, makeup and hormones, back seat sex, America high school dating practices and the inside of your average, not overly healthy or overly motivated teenage mind.
There are a few hilarious characters, such as Tonya's mother, who lets the neighborhood kids covene at her house to smoke cigarettes, drink the occasional beer and neck while she looks the other way. Tonya's mom even takes Tonya and her boyfriend around the block once or twice, after picking them up at school, so that they can get in some "startime" from the back seat. Tonya's Mom monitors the teenage lovers from the front seat: "Now it's time to come up for air, you two. I want to see some faces. Okay Diver Dan, it's time to come up for air," or, in a less restrictive mode, "Did you see the big dipper yet?" Another one is Candy, a sex appeal oozing, rhythmn and blues listening trailer park denizen, from whom the son (and this reviewer as well) learns the art of creating and getting into the world's tightest pair of jeans.
In all, a very good book to which every person almost old enough (and old enough) to get drafted and sent to Vietnam can relate, not to mention those who simply value or are curious about American culture and lifestyle, circa 1960.
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Trailer Park HippiesSet against a tacky backdrop of Midwestern squalor,Trailer Park Hippies is a tale of parental insanity, adolescentinfidelity and the moral disintegration of the late1960s. School-skipping, drug-crazed teenagers engage in highlyconsensual mobile-home sex while Country Joe and the Fish blare at topvolume from cracked stereo speakers in the background.
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