Goldstein, Stanley

Sasha Newborn relied on his personal experience for this tale of culture shock, coming back to the United States having missed the advent of the Freedom Riders, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the gathering movement against the Vietnam War. The protagonist had a lot of catching up to do. The Peace Corps experience was invaluable for testing one's ideas about the world; it would prove to be a harder task to integrate lessons learned abroad into the tumult of the Sixties in the States. Since the novel, Newborn has gone on to continue in publishing and book making, as a text designer for Black Sparrow Pr...