Saturn's Return: A Boomer's Memoir chronicles an upper middle-class
son/itinerant musician's emotional, social and historical
travelogue during America's heady decades of the 60's and 70's.
Beginning shortly after postwar America reaches its economic and
political zenith, when the America way of life can still be
characterized as a middle-class patriarchy, the author recounts his
struggle to pursue his aspirations against the vision of his
father- a WWII Naval Reserve Captain-bent on shoehorning him into
the military. After graduating high school in 1966 he heads off to
Boston University, having enlisted in the Naval Reserve in a flawed
compromise. The popular opposition to the war among the young is
increasing and spreading throughout the country, drawing him and so
many of his generation further away from the moorings of a
middle-class life. Over the course of the next decade he pursues
the life of an itinerant singer and guitarist until the fading of
the counterculture directs him towards consolidating a more
permanent identity and coming to terms with his family of origin.
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