The Nirvana Blues: A Novel

The Nirvana Blues: A Novel
by John Nichols

The Nirvana Blues: A Novel
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Author: John Nichols
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-02-15
ISBN: 0805063404
Number of pages: 540
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

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Book Review: Woodstock Gone Wrong
Summary: 4 Stars

Maybe you had to have been there... and if you were there, you probably don't remember; so Nichols provides you with an easy flashback. It would be a complete literary error to attempt to compare this book to THE MAGIC JOURNEY or THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WARS. No, different times require different treatments. This is a difficult read because Nichols is protraying a difficult period, the middle years of the Baby Boomers. If you are from the Silent Generation, it won't make sense. If you ever dreamed of an alternative lifestyle, then dust off that Woodstock album, er... CD and enjoy the ride.

Summary of The Nirvana Blues: A Novel

The seventies are over. All across America, the overgrown kids of the middle class are getting their acts together--and getting older. The once-tight Chicano community of Chamisaville is long gone, and the Anglo power brokers control almost everything. Joe Miniver--faithful husband, loving father, and all-around good guy?is about to sink roots. To buy the land he wants, he dreams up a coke scam that will net him the necessary bread. Joe is also about to embark on a series of erotic adventures with three headstrong women, bringing him face-to-face with the terrors (and absurdity) of the modern man-woman scene.

This final volume in the New Mexico trilogy, like its predecessors, is a lusty, visionary novel that blends comedy and tragedy, reality and fantasy, tenderness and bite, to illuminate some very troubling truths about America--truths no less pointed and accurate today than they were twenty years ago.

John Nichols is the author of nine novels and six works of nonfiction. He lives in Northern New Mexico.

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