Instant Karma: A Novella

ISBN-13: 9781514688007 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 114 str.

Eric Christopherson

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Former hippie Gordo McCain suffers a brain aneurysm in 2015 and awakens after surgery with retrograde amnesia. He can't remember a thing past the year 1969. He doesn't recognize his wife and family. He doesn't even recognize his own name because people aren't calling him Gordo McCain anymore but instead Robert Hurlbut. He discovers that he's been living under an assumed name for more than forty years and is now the last fugitive member of the radical underground group Stormfront. At first he tries to keep his head low and continue living as Robert Hurlbut. But when it becomes clear that, over the years, he'd become a conformist and "sell-out," Gordo is disgusted with himself. He trades his new Jaguar for a vintage VW bus, paints it in psychedelia, and hits the road to find an old lover, to find the truth about his allegedly violent past, and to find himself, existentially speaking. Along for the ride is his 15 year-old granddaughter, Emily Hurlbut, an alienated Goth and the only member of the family Gordo can relate to. Meanwhile, the FBI cold case unit picks up his trail ... Instant Karma is a comedic novella. It skewers the 1960s as well as America in the 21st century. Buy it today then "turn on, tune in, and drop out" for a few hours.