Palmer, an aimless and irascible young bohemian intellectual is the young author's fictionalized alter-ego. exaggerated to the absurd, he pulls back the covers of a seedy side of the nascent counterculture of Southern California. Palmer is an over educated, crazed every-man, obsessed by the one thing he can't have. This seminal work was composed as a high speed typewritten stream of consciousness while the author manned his first of many used bookstores. Immersed in the underbelly of academia and the political struggles, and cultural revolution of the liberating early 1960's Southern California. Palmer's frustrated misadventures, irreverent and ribald, began in this volume, and continued in long imagined elaborate unwritten sequels. Transcribed from a photocopy of the original yellowed and fading manuscript a year after his death in 2021.
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