A young just-graduated student decides to escape his background by experimenting with sex, psychotropic drugs and playing violin for a rock band. Influenced by the band leader and guitarist, he becomes part of this post-grad hippyish community of musicians and their girlfriends, roadies and supporters. But his parents - particularly his mother - want him to have a proper career… and what will become of his high-minded, virtuous yet confused and contradictory relationship with his girlfriend?
A young just-graduated student decides to escape his background by experimenting with sex, psychotropic drugs and playing violin for a rock band. Influenced by the band leader and guitarist, he becomes part of this post-grad hippyish community of musicians and their girlfriends, roadies and supporters. But his parents - particularly his mother - want him to have a proper career… and what will become of his high-minded, virtuous yet confused and contradictory relationship with his girlfriend?
Peter G. Brown is a professor in the School of Environment, the Department of Geography, and the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University. Before going to McGill, he was Professor of Public Policy at the University of Marylands graduate School of Public Affairs; while at Maryland he founded the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, and the School of Public Policy itself, and also established the Schools Environmental Policy Programs. He is a graduate of Harvard College, and holds a masters degree in the philosophy of religion from Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from Columbia in philosophy. He is the author of Restoring the Public Trust: A Fresh Vision for Progressive Government in America and Ethics, Economics and International Relations: Transparent Sovereignty in the Commonwealth of Life; it is published in North America as The Commonwealth of Life: Economics For a Flourishing Earth. He has edited and contributed to a number of other books and publications. Brown is involved in conservation efforts in the James Bay and Southern regions of Quebec, as well as in Maryland. He operates tree farms in both locales and is a Certified Quebec Forest Producer, and in 1995 was Tree Farmer of The Year in Garrett County, Maryland. He is a member of the Religious Society of Friends. Geoffrey Garver is an environmental consultant and lecturer in law in Montreal. From 2000 to 2007, he was a senior official at the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, directing the unit that publishes detailed factual investigations of complaints by North American citizens that one of the NAFTA countries Mexico, the United States, and Canada is failing to effectively enforce its environmental law. At the CEC, he wrote reports on enforcement of laws on water pollution from Canadian pulp and paper mills, harm to fish habitat from logging in British Columbia, and the killing of migratory birds by timber harvesting in the
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