"The setting of Student In the Underworld takes place fifty years ago-in the 1960's, mostly in San Francisco's historic Butcher Town. It is ironic that Student is not about the anti-war/flower child movement. Nor is it a work set in academia, although both appear in the novel's background. At that time, there was far more going on in the city of St. Francis than the media-dominated vision of the Haight-Ashbury/student protest scene. This novel shows...