Side Effects A Footloose Journey to the Apocalypse

by Katz, S. Montana

• ISBN13: 9781771835503
• ISBN10: 1771835508
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2020-10-01
• Publisher: Guernica World Editions

Summary

Side Effects: A footloose journey to the apocalypse is a novel about the post-World War II baby boom generation and the factors that have led to climate catastrophe. The novel provides a portrait of the boomers by following the lives of a zany, idealistic couple and their growing family through the '50s, '60s, '70s. Beginning on a honeymoon motorcycle trip the couple sets the goal of putting down roots in California, the land of wild beauty, abundance, and political activism. The music, art, science, and politics of the era are palpable throughout the book.

Author Biography

Montana Katz is a psychoanalyst. She has written two other novels (Clytemnestra’s Last Day and Living Dolls and Other Women), a play (adapted from Clytemnestra’s Last Day by the same name), books on psychoanalysis (Contemporary Psychoanalytic Field Theory: Stories, Dreams and Metaphor and Metaphor and Fields: Common Ground, Common Language, and the Future of Psychoanalysis), and two award-winning books on gender bias (The Gender Bias Prevention Book and, with co-author Veronica Vieland, Get Smart: What You Need To Know But Won’t Learn In Class About Sexual Harassment And Sex Discrimination). Her writing is situated at the confluence of fact, history, and the unconscious.