Category: Literary Fiction Publisher: Destinée Media
ISBN-10: 097590826X
Type: Fiction
Pages: 212
Copyright: October 1, 2011
ISBN-13: 9780975908266
Love and Loss in a Culture Seduced by Legalism and Secularism
A now middle-aged Robert Macon is going back to California. Plagued by memories of his own past decisions and the images of California during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960′s, Macon is met with a shocking truth about the ripples effects of those years. And with this discovery, he will confront the biggest challenge of his life.
We also meet Robert, a young man heading off to a small Christian college, where he optimistically expects to find love, community, and God. When he is met instead by a set of strict rules and a plethora of forces set on determining him, he takes shelter in the psychedelic counterculture of flower-power mantras and free-love encounters, which leave him emotionally bankrupt. Confused and caught between two polarized worldviews, Robert desperately craves some measure of meaning. Will Robert take up this task of reckoning?
Pale Tides engages readers in a humorous yet dramatic journey of soul-searching and self-discovery that aptly raises the challenge of confronting the present reality of our past decisions.
What causes America's mainstream media to fear and try to destroy a group of artists and their work? What happens when such a creative movement grows in strength and threatens media's bottom line? Why would extremists find it necessary to take acti
