T. C. Boyle

T. Coraghessan Boyle

Star has travelled to Drop City - 47 acres of commune in California - to be free from her home, from society's constraints and to feel part of something important. But underneath the drugs, music and transcendent bliss, she discovers tensions and rivalries that threaten to split the community.

Drop City

"It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace, free love, and the simple life has decided to relocate to the last frontier--the unforgiving landscape of interior Alaska--in the ultimate expression of going back to the land."--P. [4] of cover.

Klaus Eck

Lisa

Rosie Yakob 

Jaymie Lemke

Melanie Richards

'One of the funniest, most subtle novels we've had about the hippy era's slow fade to black ... this may be his most affecting emotionally complex novel' (New York Times Book Review)Star has travelled to Drop City - forty-seven sun-washed acres of commune in California - to be free from her home, from society's constraints, and to feel part of something important. But she starts to suspect that free love was invented by some spotty dude who couldn't get laid any other way, and that chilled out means lazy. And as for peace-living, there seems to be an ugly undercurrent of violence. Then, when rape charges are brought and the police threaten to close down Drop City, the hippies decamp to the wilds of Alaska where they intend to live off the land. But instead the community runs into trouble, unexpected friendships are made and dangerous enemies are born.

Alex Stelzhammer

Melody Izard

Tracey O’Rourke

steffi

Star has joined a hippie commune devoted to peace, free love and living the simple, natural life. For Star and her companions it is utopia, a community free of the restrictions of the outside world. But underneath the bliss, she discovers tensions that threaten to split the community apart.

Drop City

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