"In the course of an impressive career as a writer, Herbert Gold
has demonstrated many gifts, among them his talent for mak-ing high
drama of ordinary events, ordinary people." -"Chicago Tribune Book
World"
"Gold...has a sharp eye for detail."-"The Washington Times
Magazine"
"Not just a good book, but a great one."-"Daily Mail" (London)
"Herbert Gold... gives his stories a wry, bright air of
wonder...he is a born storyteller."-"New York Times"
"One of the most gifted writers in America."-"Detroit Times"
Important writers are expected to gather together collections of
their shorter works-the obligatory book of stories or essays. In
this collection, Herbert Gold discards convention, and instead
combines fiction and non-fiction themes that have been important to
him as a writer and social thinker. This "interchange between fact
and fiction," as Gold writes, "presents the picture of an American
mind wrestling with the American mentality." And that mind ranges
wide: from the miseries of Haiti to the disasters of Biafra; from
the new universities and the beatniks and hippies of San Francisco
in the 1960s to the literary life and encounters with random
violence, love, death, and sexuality in the present.
Portions of this book have been published in periodicals as varied
as "Esquire" and "Look," "Hudson Review," and "Tri-Quarterly," and
some appear here for the first time. For this edition, Gold bridges
the sections with new introductions, which link the specific works,
the times, and his life. The book includes the savage and moving
story "A Death on the East Side," and his meditation on the doom of
Biafra and the meaning of its fate. He has added two new essays,
"King of the Cleveland Beatniks," about his brother, and "Quality
Time with Sonny Barger," about the former president of the Hell's
Angels Oakland Chapter. These show his consistent interest in what
many would see as the margins of social life.
Of the title, the author writes: ""The Magic Will"" seeks to make
the real world unreal and magical, and the unreal and magical world
practical and real." Amusing, touching, playful, ultimately deeply
serious, this book by Herbert Gold further illuminates the mind and
heart of a superb writer. It will be a joy to those interested in
the humanities, as well as cultural history and social awareness in
the broadest sense.
Herbert Gold is a novelist, short story writer, essayist, and
occasional journalist, who has made his living as a writer for
fifty years.
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