The Last of the Hippies

By C.J. Stone

Part autobiography, part history, part travelogue, this is an account of the author's experiences in that marginal realm, the mythical hippie's heavenly playground, and an investigation of how the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571193137
• ISBN13: 9780571193134
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 0.8" x 8.5"

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The Last of the Hippies

It's hard to know where the hippie movement begins. It's even harder to know where it ends. There were hippies long before they were ever called hippies, and there were hippies long after the hippie movement was dead. What's certain is that it was a wild, visionary, revolutionary time. Especially as you could claim Social Security while you were at it. C. J. Stone first saw Timothy Leary on TV in his living-room in South Yardley, Birmingham, when he was sixteen years old. He was impressed. Timothy Leary had probably never heard of Birmingham, let alone South Yardley, let alone make his views known to a sixteen-year-old delivery boy; and yet here he was, in the author's living-room, telling him to 'turn on, tune in and drop out'. That's when C. J. Stone became converted. He'd already turned the telly on and tuned it in. Now all he needed to do was find the drop-out button. The Last of the Hippies is about a generation of souls looking for the drop-out button Part autobiography, part history, part travelogue, it recounts the author's adventures in that marginal realm: the mythical hippie's heavenly playground. Where LSD is the drug of choice, where evolution is the pastime, where revolution is the rhetoric, and paganism is the religion. It's a carnival of madness. Join at your peril. --- from book's end pages