Staff Pick
One of my favorite books of all time. It's really two "books." The first part is a vignette of lots of people's lives as they navigate newness, change, loss, and lament. The second part of the book is a novella that focuses on Amelia, a deep person whose vision of the world is so real. Recommended By Dana S., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
"I haven’t read anything in years that captures so well the beauty of being young. It feels like Godard and Truffaut during their early enchantment."—Woodstock Times
This two-part work, a haunting novella and a visionary collection of prose and poetry, explores themes of personal freedom and the end of innocence in a changing world. In Book One, Amelia Fisher is a young woman plagued by loss and the abandonment of her dreams, who must learn to face her own truth. In Book Two, writings both hallucinatory and full of heart take us on a dark but ultimately redemptive flight into the landscapes of human folly.
Simone Felice writes in the related disciplines of fiction, poetry and song. He travels extensively, giving readings in universities and cafes in North America and Europe.
Review
"This beautiful soft spoken velvet voice will leave you wanting more and turning pages. A must read if you are a literate underground coming up for air."
Toby Tobin, author of "Door to Door"MTV/Pocket Books
Synopsis
"No one is doing what Felice is doing."--BBC Radio
Synopsis
Cultural Writing. Memoir. GINNY GOOD "captures the spirit of the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s and 1970s and tells the story of Jones' lifes as Ginny ("the first hippie") drifts into and out of it"--Publisher's Marketplace. "A soothingly disturbing bittersweet elixir. By turns deliciously funny and poignantly painful, it wanders and rambles in and out of the messiness of life. It's real. It's human. You will be different for having immersed yourself in it. GINNY GOOD has the soul and guts and truth of a classic of American literature"--Donna McDougle.
About the Author
Born in Palenville, NY, in 1976. He writes in the related disciplines of fiction, poetry, and song. He travels extensively, giving readings in theaters, bookstores, schools, and cafes in North America and Europe. He has been a featured poet at: the Black Box theatre in SF, the Farrago poetry festival in London, the Cathedral in London, the Bug Bar in London, the colony café Woodstock, the Starry Plough Oakland. He also opened for the reggae band The Burning Spear at the Bearsville Theatre in Bearsville, NY. Simone toured with Ainsley Burrow's Babylon by Foot tour in 2002, during the London leg of the tour.