Resumen:
Native State. Called home from a life living abroad to the bedside of the father he left home to escape decades ago, author and musician Tony Cohan finds himself drawn into a rueful contemplation of his journey from a 1950s Californian childhood to a bohemian life roaming the world and experiencing first-hand the dizzy heights and burnt end of the 1960s. From Hollywood to Tangiers, Copenhagen to Kyoto, London to Barcelona, Cohan paints a vivid portrait of an artist as a young man breaking free of the confines of his celebrity-filled, alcoholic Hollywood family through music, writing and wandering the globe. A palm reader's prediction that he will die in middle-age while traveling strengthens the young adventurer's resolve to live life to the full - no waiting. Down and out in Paris or on the run in Marrakesh, his encounters with jazz and literary geniuses, lowlifes, divas and crooks, Zen masters and rock stars create an indelible impression of a unique cultural era - and an extraordinary life. |
