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Altamont Augie
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Altamont Augie (2011) (edit title/settings)

by Richard Barager (Author) (edit contributors)

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A NATION'S HONOR ... A GENERATION'S POLITICAL SOUL ... LOVE and WAR in the AGE of AQUARIUS A startlingly vivid portrayal of one of the most colorful and turbulent periods in recent American history: the 1960s, as seen through the eyes of two ill-fated college lovers at odds over... read more

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After being assigned to cut a trailer for the 30th anniversary rerelease of the 1969 rock documentary Gimme Shelter, Los Angeles trailer editor CALEB LEVY becomes obsessed with an obscure fatality that occurred at Altamont, the notorious concert profiled in the film. His quest to... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

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After being assigned to cut a trailer for the 30th anniversary rerelease of the 1969 rock documentary Gimme Shelter, Los Angeles trailer editor CALEB LEVY becomes obsessed with an obscure fatality that occurred at Altamont, the notorious concert profiled in the film. His quest to identify a John Doe who drowned in an irrigation canal an hour into the concert leads to a stunning discovery: Caleb’s own mother was at Altamont, and knew the man in question. When questioned, she tells a story that changes all Caleb thought he knew about her.

It is the story of DAVID NOBLE and JACKIE LUNDQUIST, college lovers who clash when he joins the marines to fight a war she opposes. Her pride wounded by his rush to war, Jackie ignores David’s letters from Vietnam, where he survives the blood-red clay of Khe Sahn before returning home to find Jackie a prominent campus radical. To Jackie, the faltering war in Vietnam is a failure of national conscience; to David it is a failure of national honor. But neither Jackie’s rise to fame as the antiwar movement's alluring Radical Queen nor David’s counter-protest activities in support of the war can extinguish their passion for one another. Their love endures, even while fighting on opposite sides of the defining issue of their time, the New Left and New Right battling for a generation’s political soul—a battle that rages still. Both their tumultuous affair and the Age of Aquarius itself cartwheel into the decade’s last great rock festival: Altamont, the metaphoric Death of the Sixties, where shame and honor collide, and tragedy awaits redemption.

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  • David Noble: A green-eyed, marble-bodied nineteen-year-old who walks with a deliberate, forward-leaning gait—as if bracing for another of life’s blows. With unfashionably short hair, a strong brow, and a defiant cleft chin, he has a face that could have been limned and framed for West Point. The protagonist of the story, David is a self-sufficient orphan with an archaic sense of honor and duty and a fondness for the chivalric novels of Walter Scott.
  • Jackie Lundquist: David's girlfriend, a long-legged girl with pouty lips and lapis blue eyes, an intemperate child of privilege, partial to J. D. Salinger and the importance of personal authenticity, “getting real.” Fair of complexion and lightly freckled, she possesses a devastating blend of midwestern wholesomeness and centerfold wantonness that makes it easy to see why she later becomes the Radical Queen of SDS.
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  • “. . . it wasn't the hue and cry of the striving poor that started revolutions; it was the cavil and tripe of the disaffected well-off.”
  • “Honor is a vital human instinct, without which human beings and the societies we form cannot endure.”
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  • It ain’t love of country that makes men die for one another—it’s the willingness of men to die for one another that makes for love of country.
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What kind of man goes to one of the biggest rock concerts of the sixties, manages to drown in a nearby irrigation canal an hour into the show, and is never identified?

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  1. Richard Barager (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Interloper Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: June 1, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9830661-0-1
Page Count: 301

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  1. 1960s, 
  2. 60's, 
  3. altamont, 
  4. music, 
  5. stones, 
  6. viet nam, 
  7. vietnam 

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