Drop City
New York, NY, U.S.A. Viking, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover; Cloth & Boards. Fine / Fine in Archival Plastic Cover. Item #5127
ISBN: 0670031720
A fine First Edition, First Printing signed by the author on the title page. In fine light green-blue and black cloth boards in a fine colorful dustjacket in protective archival plastic cover. Signed at a local bookstore. T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of many books including "Descent of Man," "If the World Was Whiskey," "The Road to Wellville," "Riven Rock," "A Friend of the Earth" and "After the Plague."
New York Times Book Reviews (2003) said “Drop City is a 1970’s California commune of hippies who migrate to Alaska believing that the lawless tundra will let them live high as kites forever. Of course, it takes only a few months of early winter to make flower power fade to black. But Boyle’s compassion for the oddballs, and even a few losers, is striking; he has not often achieved such emotional complexity.” Boyle is perhaps best known for his third novel, “World’s End,” which won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1988. This novel delves into the complex history of several Hudson River Valley families across multiple generations. Character Dana Halter from his novel "Talk Talk" published her "own" novel in "McSweeny's." Boyles was mentored by writers John Cheever and Ray Carver. His most recent publication was for the 2023 title “Blue Skies.”
Drop City, Trinidad, Colorado, was one of the first “hippie communes,” housing a counterculture community of creatives and activists. Referring to themselves as “droppers,” they lived in geodesic domes constructed from scrap car tops and other materials and practiced “Drop Art,” inspired by Allan Kaprow’s “happenings”—unique moments of situational art and performance. By the late 1960s, the commune began to disintegrate. In “Drop City Revisited” (2006), Sam Sadler wrote, “Drop City’s praxis measured a situation, life in late-twentieth century America, against an understanding of what makes for human well-being and set about building a bridgehead between the two."
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