The Mental Traveller

By Stephen Kessler

Fiction. At the dark end of the 1960s, a young poet is launched on a bizarre odyssey that leads him from the ill-fated gathering of rock-and-roll tribes at Altamont through San Francisco City Prison to various psychiatric hospitals up and down California in search of his role in the Revolution. An anti-nostalgic, at times terrifying, often comical exploration of a period largely misremembered in the collective imagination, this picaresque narrative is a vivid evocation of a tumultuous moment in American cultural history, an intimate account of acute psychosis, and an archetypal tale of artistic initiation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965523977
• ISBN13: 9780965523974
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Greenhouse Review Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 15 years and up