The Risk of Being Ridiculous: A Historical Novel of Love and Revolution

By Guy Maynard

It's Boston 1969 and nineteen-year-old Ben Tucker lives in a funky apartment on Mountfort Street with his tribe of fellow long-haired freaks. Together they mix radical street politics, a love of rock of roll, and celebratory drug use in their desperate search for lives that make sense in a world distorted by war, racism, and bankrupt values.Ridiculous takes you on a passionate, lyrical six-week ride through confrontation and confusion, courts and cops, parties and politics, school and the streets, Weathermen and women's liberation, acid and activism, revolution and reaction. And, of course, Love-as through it all, Ben feverishly pursues the long-shot desire of his life: Sarah Stein.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555716717
• ISBN13: 9781555716714
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Hellgate Press
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"