{"product_id":"from-someplace-else-ralph-osborne-9781550225501","title":"From Someplace Else: A Memoir","description":"The decade between 1961 and 1971 was a time of tumult; of innocence lost, gained, and lost again. During those years, Ralph Osborne moved from the confusions of being 17 to, briefly, believing that at 27, he knew everything. It is, he says, \"my version of the Divine Comedy -- more comedic than divine.\" From Someplace Else is an often hilarious, occasionally tragic account of the exploration of boundaries, inner and outer, through a time of free love and psychedelic adventure. And because the paths between Heaven and Hell, good and bad, and up and down are not linear, this book is necessarily an account of one man's first trip around the circle. Osborne's Holy Grail is identity. His quest, in which he sets out to learn \"a small piece of the puzzle -- one little thing I could know for certain,\" takes him from a working-class tenement on the east coast, through the privileged confines of Westmount, west to the cleansing air of the prairies, and east again, to the stoned-out beginnings of Toronto-the-hip where he becomes general manager of the infamous Rochdale College. \u003ci\u003eFrom Someplace Else\u003c\/i\u003e is a journey driven by the ever-relevant question: to be, or to become? It's also the slightly surreal description of the thin line between simplicity and squalor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ralph Osborne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1550225502\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781550225501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Misfit Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/09\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2003 pg. 41","brand":"Ralph Osborne","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47001629458687,"sku":"9781550225501","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ab06b37a-a5ec-4582-9c88-b8a88ef26eb9.jpg?v=1751601651","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/from-someplace-else-ralph-osborne-9781550225501","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}