The Quartzsite Trip

by William Hogan

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380545853
• ISBN13: 9780380545858
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great Book for Graduating Students and their Teachers

This is a witty, fast-paced story about senior year high school students on a camping field trip that turns into a rite of passage for its participants. The characters are well-developed and the plot and subplots keep the reader riveted throughout. Students,recent graduates and teachers will connect with this humorous adventure. Its a great summer read. Buy it and enjoy!

It was an absolutely wonderful book

This book was more than fantastic. Too bad it is out of print, because others won't be able to enjoy it as much as I did when I read it during my English Lit class at Menlo College with Phil Hutcheon in 1984.This book brings the human experience to life and is a masterpiece in every sense of the word. If you happen to see this book for sale in a bookstore, please pick it up. I promise you, you won't be able to put it down until the last page has been turned.

Every copy I have seen is lovingly worn and tattered

Charming coming of age book that is set in the 60's, and so accurate that it is...like a living page out of time.The characters could (and did) live in your town. It was an age of "good" girls and "bad" girls, girdles that saved one's virginity, "bitchin'" cars, and class trips.The action focuses around a yearly trip to Quartzsite, AR. and the lovely, zaney English teacher who yearly chooses who will go. Further than that I won't go--some things you should have the utter pleasure of unfolding for yourself. It is funny, enchanting, philosophical, sad...a finely crafted novel.

Captures the Moment!

I remember back in 1984 I had just moved into a new place when I found a copy of Quartzsite Trip on the kitchen counter. Wound up spending the next 14 hours reading the book and never got anything unpacked. Well, 15 years later I found a copy at a book sale and it captitvated me all over again. Captures the angst and fear of the Senior year. The scenes of sexual frustration and experimentation perfectly remind me of What It Was Like. Almost every character in there reminds me of someone in my high school (class of 1979!)....even PJ reminds me of my eccentric English teacher who was this Bohemian middle aged poet that smoked a lot of pot (but was the only one ever that inspired me to read!) The final scenes are almost a perfect ending. Wonderful!

Hilarious-serious: high school seniors on vacation.

Funniest book I've ever read! Have sent at least 10 copies to friends. Wish it was still in print. Story about 36 high school seniors in 1962, who spend their annual Easter vacation together in the desert with their English teacher. Those who were in high school in the late 50s-early 60s, will be able to easily relate to this hilarious story, which covers such things as clothes, fads, boys, zits, slang, teenage worries, trials and tribulations of the times, cliques, socializing, being laughed at, dating, sex, bad breath, etc. This is by far the funniest book I've ever read; sorry the author hasn't written more books; his style is funny, crisp, fast-moving and entertaining. A thought-provoking, fun read, with poignant messages for all who are lucky enough to discover this book!