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It's 1973, and a thirty-something widow has been cajoled by a young hippie parasite into financing their vacation to a nudist colony in the Northern California mountains. At Camp Freedom Lake, they meet a womanizing evangelist, a bumbling Zen gardener, and a pair of aging drug-addled swingers from Holland.

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This in hope of preserving from decay the remembrance of what men have done, Of preventing great and wonderful actions from losing their meed of glory, And withal to put on record what were their grounds of feud. - Herodotus.... 440 BC This is an incredible story of a once obscure social welfare worker's rise form a deathbed and subsequent catapult into a position of worldwide power and influence. Harry Hopkins was an improbable hero livin...

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This is an incredible story of a once obscure social welfare worker's rise from a deathbed and subsequent catapult into a position of worldwide power and influence. Harry Hopkins was an improbable hero living on borrowed time at the epicenter of world chaos during World War II. By means of exceptional cunning, sustenance, valor, and patriotism, his achievements and services alter the course of history during the mid-twentieth century. His nobl...

D. Foy's second novel is a tornado of brutal Americana. Patricide is a heavy metal Huck Finn that whips up the haunted melancholy of Kerouac's Doctor Sax, a novel of introspection and youth in its corruption that seethes with the deadly obsession of Moby-Dick, and the darkness of Joy Williams' State of Grace. Beyond the story of a boy growing up in a family derailed by a hapless father, Patricide is a search for meaning and identity within the...

A melancholic, savage look at relationships and the lies we tell ourselves, suffused with spirited language and humor.