Book description
It's late 1969 and Communist China has successfully launched its
first satellite. Inspired by this feat, a group of college students in
Laguna Beach, California, set out to put their own satellite into
orbit in homage to the recent Woodstock Festival.
A young Canadian graduate student at the University of California
finds himself at the centre of the mayhem when he and his friends
break into a mothballed missile silo and commandeer everything they
need, including a nuclear warhead, to blast the Woodstock Nation into
the space age. The activists have big plans for their loot, schemes
that may well culminate in the Light Show to End All Light Shows in
the Nevada desert.
An extraordinary black comedy shot full of the social and political
issues of the time, Woodstock Rising is a coming-of-age tale
couched in free love, rock anthems, and revolution as well as a
chronicle of an era whose causes continue to speak to us.
"Part satire, part serious cultural chronicle, and part
wish-fulfillment fantasy, Woodstock Rising is an enjoyable and
insightful novel. it will rsonate particularly with thos readers who
lived through the turbulent times of the late 1960s - especially those
who missed out on the original Woodstock."
Tom Wayman has
published 25 previous books, including High Speed Through Shoaling
Water, Boundary Country, A Vain Thing, and the 2003 Governor
General's Award nominated volume of poems My Father's Cup. He
divides his time between the University of Calgary, where he teaches,
and his estate in Winlaw, British Columbia.
