Blogs in January 1970

The Delivery Man 1st January 1970

Young, good-looking, newly graduated from art college: Chase has everything going for him. Okay, so he’s back in Vegas. But he plans to leave it behind, hook up with his girlfriend in California, and become an artist. Or at...

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Los Alamos 1st January 1970

Joseph Kanon is a brave man: for his first novel, Los Alamos, he has chosen the Manhattan Project as a backdrop and Robert J. Oppenheimer as a central character. The year is 1945, and a group of scientists squirreled...

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Bright Shiny Morning 1st January 1970

Welcome to LA. City of contradictions. It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping sprees and gun sprees. Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis, where glittering excess rubs shoulders...

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A River Runs Through It 1st January 1970

Maclean grew up in the western Rocky Mountains in the first decades of the twentieth century. As a young man he worked many summers in logging camps and for the United States Forest Service. The two novellas and short...

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Valencia 1st January 1970

Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl’s search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco’s Mission District. Michelle Tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there’s knife-wielding Marta, who...

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