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I grew up in California’s Central Valley. The Valley was huge but stifling. If you climbed the town water tower one foggy night and the cops hauled you down, it made the local newspaper. Your one goal was a customized car with a flame job and flipper hubcaps. You wore Levis or Chinos and you cut your hair short. And then along came Jack Kerouac and On The Road. Right behind him came William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Philip Lamantia, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and, of course, Allen Ginsberg. And everything changed overnight.
In the San Francisco Chronicle, Herb Caen wrote about these crazy people living in dens of iniquity in North Beach. He called them Beatniks. He took the term from Kerouac who used the term beat to mean Beatitude, but Caen mixed it up with Sputnik and a whole generation was born.
Blood: Be prepared for a wild ride as the author, Jack Remick, does not ease gently into the story. From the very first page, the reader is immediately swept up by the prose as if caught in a flash flood. Multilayered themes combine with Mitchell's nightmarish delusions blurring into reality: corporate and individual corruption, biology versus destiny, environmental damage and human depravity, betrayal and deception. The narrative is rhythmic, almost hypnotic, with a cadence like a relentless drum beat or at times a turbulent raging river. All of this combines to result in one of the best books I’ve ever read.
San Francisco Book Review.
April, 2011
A Few Awards and Mentions:
Maxine, 2024 Gold Medal Category Finalist, Hoffer Competition
No Century for Apologies--Short Listed for the 2023 Hoffer Grand Prize..
Gabriela and The Widow--Montaigne Medal Finalist in the Eric Hoffer Award competition.
Gabriela and The Widow--Foreword Book Reviews Book of the Year Finalist.
No Century for Apologies--Honorable Mention, 2023 Hoffer Grand Prize.
"The "Book of Changes" is like reading Thomas Wolfe with punctuation. It's entertaining as hell. Hades, and the redemptive afterlife tied together and baked into a cupcake. With a bryndon on the side. Crack open a bottle of mead, loosen your doublet, and prepare to do homage to the great Jack Remick." from the review by J. H. Turner, Jan 2014
Blood
"At full speed 'Blood' will make you squirm in discomfort and disbelief. At its most gentle, it will make you understand a killer. But it is always gorgeous writing that will transport you to a world where love and hate coexist in one of the most interesting main characters literature has to offer" from the review by Nicole Disney.
Valley Boy, Second Edition, revisits Ricky Edwards on his road to truth, life, a fast car. and Gitanes cigarettes.
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