The light years : a memoir
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
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First edition.
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372 pages : 24 cm
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English

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Chris Rush was born into a prosperous, fiercely Roman Catholic, New Jersey family. But underneath the gleaming mid-century house, the flawless hostess mom, and the thriving businessman dad ran an unspoken tension that, amid the upheaval of the late 1960s, was destined to fracture their precarious facade. His older sister Donna introduces him to the charismatic Valentine, who places a tab of acid on twelve-year-old Rush's tongue, proclaiming: "This is sacrament. You are one of us now." After an unceremonious ejection from an experimental art school, Rush heads to Tuscon to make a major drug purchase and, still barely a teenager, disappears into the nascent American counterculture. Stitching together a ragged assemblage of lowlifes, prophets, and fellow wanderers, he seeks kinship in the communes of the west. His adolescence is spent looking for knowledge, for the divine, for home. Given what Rush confronts on his travels--from ordinary heartbreak to unimaginable violence--it is a miracle he is still alive. His book is a prayer for vanished friends, an odyssey signposted with broken and extraordinary people. It transcends one boy's story to perfectly illustrate the slow slide from the optimism of the 1960s into the darker and more sinister 1970s. This is a riveting, heart-stopping journey of discovery and reconciliation, as Rush faces his lost childhood and, finally, himself.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Rush, C. (2019). The light years: a memoir (First edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Rush, Chris, 1956-. 2019. The Light Years: A Memoir. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Rush, Chris, 1956-. The Light Years: A Memoir Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Rush, Chris. The Light Years: A Memoir First edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

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