Glimpses

by Lewis Shiner

• ISBN13: 9780312267438
• ISBN10: 0312267436
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-03-12
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Summary

Ray Shackleford lives in the ruins of the idealistic 1960s. Veteran of failed garage bands, he works as a repairman of stereo equipment, tending the dying embers of his marriage, and dreaming of bygone days and the music that almost was.When he finds the music he dreams of has been mysteriously recorded by his tape deck, Ray is drawn into the past, to revisit the histories of Hendrix, Morrison, and the Beatles...along with the history of Ray Shackleford.Vividly re-creating a lost era that might have been, Glimpses fuses the hopes and dreams in the music with a powerful vision of reality.

Author Biography

Lewis Shiner is the award-winning author of five novels, most recently Say Goodbye, The Laurie Moss Story. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

"A psychedelic odyssey...soars on the escapist wings of a re-created era." --Rolling Stone

"A pop-music fairy tale linking the Beatles to Bruno Bettelheim." --The Village Voice

"I hesitate to call a book 'important,' but this may well be that...I found it deeply satisfying." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"The novel sparkles...A story of uncommon sensitivity, insight, and redemptive power...Shiner writes with intense feeling." --Publishers Weekly