Student in the Underworld

By Irving Warner

Book Overview

"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 us much of that 'more' in the framework of the Butcher's Town Writers' Guild. The main character, Student, who has just left the wartime Navy as an officer, must deal with anachronistic characters steeped in causes thirty years gone. He must also fight his own nineteen-fifties dreamscape of pre-fab homes, starched blouses, and-above all-name-brand normalcy. So, Student takes a bumpy ride when he comes to terms with womanhood in the persons of three different women as he meets his own inner-bugbears head on: all these mold Student's growth. A whimsical tone intermixed with poignancy carry the reader along during his journey"--

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604892676
• ISBN13: 9781604892673
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Livingston Press at the University of West Al
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"