Halcyon Haze (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780615509471)

Mimi Cox is a naive Catholic schoolgirl when she explodes on the American counterculture scene in 1968. Rejecting the discipline taught by nuns at her high school, she invents her own trans-formational quest for beauty and truth in a series of increasingly shocking escapades. With her first love Max and their pet monkey, Mimi aggressively pursues the temptations offered by the anti-establishment movement. These indulgences, including the sins of free love, drugs, and rock-and-roll, are a dangerous twist, producing conflict with her moral background. And through a haze of fear and self-loathing from her freewheeling irreverence, she inevitably places herself between the forces of self-destruction and redemption. As Mimi discovers her own truths, the reader compassionately witnesses heartfelt acknowledgements about her inadequacies and the consequences of her choices. A complex and emotionally rewarding memoir that immerses the reader in an accurate depiction of one of the most revolutionary times in US culture, Halcyon Haze is a must read for anyone contemplating the merits or costs of pure frrdom.

Author: Mimi Cox
ISBN-10: 0615509479
ISBN-13: 9780615509471
Publisher: Diane Knisley
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2012
Pages: 124
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.26d