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PublisherBottom DO&G Press

ISBN-101933964359

ISBN-139781933964355

eBay Product ID (ePID)84466224

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Book TitleRiders on the Storm : a Novel

Number of Pages404 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicUrban, Thrillers / Suspense, General, Violence in Society, Political

Publication Year2010

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, Fiction

AuthorSusan Streeter Carpenter

Book SeriesWorking Lives Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight5 oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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ReviewsIve always wondered why the sixties are so hard to write about. But Susan Streeter Carpenter proves it can be done with equal parts insight, generosity, and honesty. Her evocation of the time is among the best I've seen. -Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club ...... Susan Streeter Carpenters Riders on the Storm explores and explodes the shallow stereotypes and hollow myths that persiston both left and rightabout the Sixties and the young radicals who dreamed of, and sometimes fought for, a transformed world. Compassionate but exacting, she creates unforgettable characters, and their political, personal, and sexual ideals and passions are completely human and entirely compelling. Jeff Gundy, author of Spoken among the Trees, I've always wondered why the sixties are so hard to write about. But Susan Streeter Carpenter proves it can be done with equal parts insight, generosity, and honesty. Her evocation of the time is among the best I've seen. -Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club ...... Susan Streeter Carpenter's Riders on the Storm explores and explodes the shallow stereotypes and hollow myths that persist-on both left and right-about the Sixties and the young radicals who dreamed of, and sometimes fought for, a transformed world. Compassionate but exacting, she creates unforgettable characters, and their political, personal, and sexual ideals and passions are completely human and entirely compelling. Jeff Gundy, author of Spoken among the Trees, I've always wondered why the sixties are so hard to write about. But Susan Streeter Carpenter proves it can be done with equal parts insight, generosity, and honesty. Her evocation of the time is among the best I've seen. -Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club ...... Susan Streeter Carpenter's Riders on the Storm explores and explodes the shallow stereotypes and hollow myths that persist--on both left and right--about the Sixties and the young radicals who dreamed of, and sometimes fought for, a transformed world. Compassionate but exacting, she creates unforgettable characters, and their political, personal, and sexual ideals and passions are completely human and entirely compelling. -Jeff Gundy, author of Spoken among the Trees

SynopsisWe think of history as a list of dates, a highlighted page in a text book, a crumb trail of footnotes. But sometimes history is personal, as tangible as the touch of lips or the clench of a fist. Susan Streeter Carpenter takes us back in RIDERS ON THE STORM, her novel of the sixties, and of 1968 in particular. Its a year that makes us thinkflower power, groovy, love beadsall the trappings of the counterculture, something to make fun of, to dress up a movie, the tie-dyed T-shirt as faded and dated as a flappers beaded dress. But in Riders on the Storm youll know 1968 as a year in the life of people who wanted to do right, to do better, who wanted to take the world with them to that better place. Ivy Barcelona, a college student in Cleveland, puts all of herself on the line for those aims. But its not just about politicsits about love (for had not the Summer of Love just passed?), about hard truths, about the conflicts that arise when the personal and the political collide. Ivy begins as a political naf, burning with undifferentiated idealism, and we follow her on the journey to a more tempered humanism. The novel takes these young people and us into the shabby, ill-lit rooms where revolution is embraced, to the marches in Chicago during the Democratic Convention, to the tunnels under the city where something dangerous is plotted. Ivy is our guide, an unknowing one whose political and sentimental education are emblematic of a generation of searchers. The explosive ending is like a fire that illuminates the thirty odd years since then, the story we have to know to understand who we are now. Before 1968 shrinks away to a word in an old font on a dusty page, open RIDERS ON THE STORM and take the trip back to the era that shoved us into the future. -Mary Grimm, author of Left to Themselves, A novel of America's radical 1960's told from four young people questioning themselves and their country. "Ive always wondered why the sixties are so hard to write about. But Susan Streeter Carpenter proves it can be done with equal parts insight, generosity, and honesty. Her evocation of the time is among the best I've seen" -Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club .....