The light years: a memoir
(Book)
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Published:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Format:
Book
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Desc:
368 pages ; 24 cm
Status:
Description
The Light Years is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American history. Chris Rush was born into a prosperous, fiercely Roman Catholic, New Jersey family. But underneath the gleaming mid-century house, the flawless hostess mom, and the thriving businessman dad ran an unspoken tension that, amid the upheaval of the late 1960s, was destined to fracture their precarious facade. His older sister Donna introduces him to the charismatic Valentine, who places a tab of acid on twelve-year-old Rush's tongue, proclaiming: "This is sacrament. You are one of us now." After an unceremonious ejection from an experimental art school, Rush heads to Tucson to make a major drug purchase and, still barely a teenager, disappears into the nascent American counterculture. Stitching together a ragged assemblage of lowlifes, prophets, and fellow wanderers, he seeks kinship in the communes of the west. His adolescence is spent looking for knowledge, for the divine, for home. Given what Rush confronts on his travels-from ordinary heartbreak to unimaginable violence-it is a miracle he is still alive. The Light Years is a prayer for vanished friends, an odyssey signposted with broken and extraordinary people. It transcends one boy's story to perfectly illustrate the slow slide from the optimism of the 1960s into the darker and more sinister 1970s. This is a riveting, heart-stopping journey of discovery and reconciliation, as Rush faces his lost childhood and, finally, himself.
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Guilford Adult Biography
BIOG RUSH, CHRIS
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B/RUSH
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BIO RUSH
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Woodbridge Adult Biography
B RUSH (CHRIS)
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Street Date:
1904
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780374294410
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APA Citation (style guide)
Rush, C. (2019). The light years: a memoir. First edition. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Rush, Chris, 1956-. 2019. The Light Years: A Memoir. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Rush, Chris, 1956-, The Light Years: A Memoir. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)Rush, Chris. The Light Years: A Memoir. First edition. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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