Title: Super Sixties and More
Review: I adored this novel! At first I was disappointed and reluctant to read any John Lawton with no Inspector Troy, but wow! was I wrong. This crystalized for me the all too well- and painfully-remembered time of the peace movement in the US, the witch hunts, the escapes from the SSS to Canada, the heartbreaks of the escapees and their families alongside the heartbreak of the Vietnam war and its victims both US and Vietnamese, and their families; the politicization of the war, the Greenwich Village and Madison bombings, Texas and its oil and children lost to drugs and the draft and the pervasive hatred of the war. The excitements of May Day rumblings, marches to the Pentagon, vigils at the White House, the "love" generation, Nixon, Hoover, Johnson et al. The recall and gathering into a single novel is so subtle, so beautifully written - it brought instant tears to my eyes in scene after scene. I can't praise this book highly enough. Please read it!
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