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Indlæser... Hippie Woman Wild: A Memoir of Life & Love on an Oregon Communeaf Carol Schlanger
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Carol Schlanger’s Hippie woman wild: a memoir of life & love on an Oregon commune brought back my own memories of communal life in Wisconsin during those wonderful tumultuous times. Although written from a woman’s perspective I could identify with many of her challenges and ofttimes contradictory opinions as she came to terms with what she wanted out of life and love. Don’t we all. I admire her honesty in telling us her intimate story of interpersonal relationships, including sexual activity, which is too often left out, whitewashing history. It leaves the following generations to think we didn’t. I love her self-revelation, conflicts, and love-hate relationships with other women. She’s very human. I’m glad that she gives us updates on each of her fellow communards at the end of the book. My only problem with her writing is she packed too much into a single paragraph. I do hope Clint writes his own version of those times. I’m still working on mine. ( ) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
A not-so-nice Jewish girl, expelled from Yale Drama during the Vietnam protests, abandons her acting dream to follow the man she loves to an off-the-grid commune in Oregon. At twenty-three, Carol Schlanger was an insecure upper-middle-class radical. Her parents spoiled her and she expected the universe to follow. It didn't. After being expelled from Yale, losing a coveted Broadway lead, and seeing a suicide splatter at her feet, she left NYC for the Great Northwest, to live in nature with a man "who made everything beautiful with his hands." At that time she chose love and nature over art and career ... until she didn't. Carol Schlanger put "hidden" cash down on an abandoned homestead-160 acres. The commune followed-all thirteen jammed tight into a broken-down cabin with no phone, no electricity, and no running water. They were dependent on each other for every human need and survival. But then freeloading and free love threatened the hard-won utopia. After struggling through infidelity, rape, and childbirth, all except the father of her child left when Carol refused to share land ownership. When, as a lone wilderness "wife," she accidentally set their house on fire, she realized she couldn't survive in isolation. Strapping her toddler into a battered old Chevy, she headed to Los Angeles to reclaim her life as a mother, her power as an artist, and her responsibility as an adult. This time her Texan followed her. This is both their love story and a love story for an explosive, mind-altering era. No library descriptions found. |
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