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The Rock
E.M. Schorb
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R384
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Needleneck (Hardcover)
E.M. Schorb
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More than half a century ago, trying to find his way out of the
chaos of a dysfunctional family that suffers from a dark secret,
eighteen-year-old Jimmy Whistler joins the Marines and is sent to
Hawaii, not yet a state, where he meets a fifteen-year-old girl,
Leilani Kona, who turns out to be the love of his life, his own
"Sweet Leilani;" but, due to her age and his sense of honor, their
love remains unconsummated. Later, shipped back to the mainland and
discharged from the Marine Corps, Jimmy makes a false start in New
York City as an actor, falling in with a show business crowd, and,
still later, with a band of hippies, all the while trying to
perfect his true calling as a writer who is attempting to discover
order in a chaos that now appears to be not merely personal but
public. How Jimmy and Leilani find each other again in the midst of
this private and public chaos is a story both comic and tragic. A
Portable Chaos is an historical novel that brings to life the
transformation of the United States from the conforming Fifties to
the volcanic social eruptions of the "swinging" Sixties-from the
private chaos of Jimmy Whistler's childhood to the public chaos of
his youth, the former shaping himself, the latter shaping all
Americans.
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