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1968 was an apocalyptic year. US President J.F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King lost their lives, Richard Nixon got elected. Campuses all over Europe, North and South America erupted at the slightest pretext. Racial rioting flared up across the United States adding to the wave of rebellion and unrest. The Vietnam War hung over everything like a festering sore. The tidal wave carried with it sexual liberation. Hemlines shot up, more and more gays came out of the closet. High-Priest of revolt, Mick Jagger egged the movement on internationally with (I can’t get no) Satisfaction. Few institutions were not penetrated by the spirit of the times. Some of the great universities held firm, others succumbed to the tidal wave of student disaffection. Oxford University stayed one of the bastions of tranquility. And this is where this story story is largely set.
Gerwyn Jones is facing his finals in the Oxford Examination Schools. He seems like a shoo-in for honours and post-graduate work in Canada. But Gerwyn’s marriage to Gwynedd is on the rocks. Theirs would prove to be no easy separation. The more that Gwynedd fought to maintain her sexual power over Gerwyn the more events fired his energies and unwrapped his libido. On the river. On the stage. In the debating hall. And as lusty bedfellow of the ready companions of the night. From being the victim of a bad marriage, and much to the chagrin of the Oxford dons, Gerwyn emerges as a flag-waving exponent of free love and the sexual revolution of the Sixties. Gwynedd did not fare so well. This is the unexpurgated version of a young man’s ride through that tumultuous year.

Summer of '68, 200pp., 5.5 X 8.5" paperback $12.95 Cdn. Shipping $5, Canada, $7.59 US and $10 world. Credit cards or cheque (pre-paid), Order from Lugus Publications, #215, 28 Industrial St. Toronto, On. Canada M4G 1Y9 (416 642 9660) studio203@distributel.net

 
 

 

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