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Title: Blessed from page 1
Review: A far-ranging, thoughtful, compelling exploration of Fitzgerald's great themes of lost youth and the futile American pursuit of self-reinvention, this time through the prism of two Seventies radicals gone underground and the withering of their cultural legacy. It also works as an affecting lament for a new generation that wanly mimics the commitment of its predecessor, a commitment whose missteps led inexorably to the detachment and cynicism it decried.Incidentally, Jason's fixation on the Beach Boys is not a needless digression. It's a crucial link between his mother's past and his present. The Beach Boys represent a wide-eyed youth that serves as the vessel on which Jason negotiates between the Scylla of his mother's wrecked idealism and the Charybdis of the arch hipness of his peers.
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