| The Berkeley Girl: In Paris, 1968 Contributor(s): Miller, Elise F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1937818306 ISBN-13: 9781937818302 Publisher: Sand Hill Review Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Revolutionary |
| Dewey: 813.6 |
| LCCN: 2016940269 |
| Physical Information: 1.01" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.26 lbs) 452 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Shy Janet McGill goes off to Berkeley in 1967 with her good grade point average and a boyfriend on campus. She doesn't consider world events. Then comes total awareness of the Vietnam War. She watches in horror as her family celebrates her brother's new military status. Her boyfriend Aaron Becker is draft deferred--as long as he stays in school--but his future has been dimmed. A feeling of doom permeates the college campus. On the verge of heartbreak, Janet joins some anti-war protests. When her parents see a photo of her in their hometown paper, Janet's mother decides that the spring of 1968 would be a fine time to send Janet to Paris. Anything to get her away from those Berkeley radicals Little did the family know that Janet would run headlong into the 1968 May Revolution and disappear. The Berkeley Girl: In Paris, 1968 brings to life the historical "Events of May," in which over ten million French citizens were involved in the only student-worker-bourgeois alliance and "revolution" that a Western, capitalist democracy had ever experienced. Far from the distant and haunting City of Light, Aaron follows Janet's journey through an intense and embattled correspondence. He witnesses her wrenching, transformative exploration of love, responsibility, and sacrifice, and then loses contact as her "safe" year abroad turns into a dangerous coming of age. Backmatter: Reader's Guide Origins and Methods: Researching the Background, Constructing a Fiction Selected Readings: US, France, Czechoslovakia Historical characters and references |
Contributor Bio(s): Miller, Elise F.: - Elise Frances Miller's novel, The Berkeley Girl (Sand Hill Review Press), is set in Berkeley and Paris in 1968. Her memoir, "My People's Park," won 2nd prize for prose in the anthology The Times They Were A-Changing: Women Remember the '60s and '70s. Her stories appear in The Best of Sand Hill Review (2012), the Fault Zone series (2010, 2011, 2014), and The Sand Hill Review (2007, 2010), for which she served as fiction editor in 2008. Miller began writing as an art critic and reviewer for the Los Angeles Times, Art News and San Diego Magazine. As a fiction writer, she has enjoyed support and encouragement through memberships in the San Francisco Writers Workshop, California Writers Club, and the Historical Novel Society. On her blog and website, Miller writes about her novel, art and society, and the byzantine issues surrounding the late 1960s, most still with us today, elisefrancesmiller.wordpress.com. |