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Not great literature but a good travel read
I got this for interest in scooter traveling but it was a better diary of young men experiencing America in a particular era. The people and situations they meet makes you want to take the journey yourself. ... Read more

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The first appearance in paperback of Beagle's beloved first novel. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Mythlore, published by Mythopoeic Society on March 22, 2009. The length of the article is 7038 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: "Two sides of the same magic": the dialectic of mortality and immortality in Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn.(Critical essay)
Author: Geoffrey Reiter
Publication: Mythlore (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2009
Publisher: Mythopoeic Society
Volume: 27Issue: 3-4Page: 103(14)

Article Type: Critical essay

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1978 PAPERBACK EDITION. SOME WEAR AND CREASES AND SMALL TEAR ON BOOK.OVER ALL ACCEPTABLE READING COPY. WE SHIP DAILY.. ... Read more

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Chapters: Kim Stanley Robinson, Blue Cheer, Michael Franti, Dj Shadow, Peter S. Beagle, Carol W. Greider, Charles Tart, Denise Curry, Lois Wolk, Dave Scott, Karen Joy Fowler, Paul Scheuring, Ruthlane Uy Asmundson, Butterscotch, John Lescroart, Jessica Utts, Sean Stewart, Paul Moller, Myril Hoag, Jason Fisk, Mariko Yamada, Tony Cline Jr., Gary Lee Yoder, Helen Thomson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 112. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Blue Cheer were an American psychedelic blues-rock band that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and were sporadically active from that point on until 2009. Based in San Francisco, Blue Cheer played in a psychedelic blues-rock style, and are also credited as being pioneers of heavy metal (their cover of "Summertime Blues" is sometimes cited as the first in the genre), punk rock, stoner rock, doom metal, experimental rock, and grunge. According to Tim Hills in his book, The Many Lives of the Crystal Ballroom, "Blue Cheer was the epitome of San Francisco psychedelia. The band is named after a street brand of LSD and promoted by renowned LSD chemist and former Grateful Dead patron, Owsley Stanley." Jim Morrison of The Doors called the group, "The single most powerful band I've ever seen." Blue Cheer came together in 1966. It was co-founded by Eric Albronda and Jerry Russell, music aficionados who wanted to become involved with the San Francisco music scene of the 1960s. Both moved with Dickie Peterson from Davis, California, to San Francisco. Peterson had previously been with the Davis-based band Andrew Staples ... Read more