The Decline of Empire
A Novel
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This is the story of a young man from a hardworking family given every benefit and expected in return to serve the country and his family by being an economic success. He questioned the premises on which these expectations were grounded, and he was a seeker of the transcendent. His experience of the impact of war and of the mind-altering experience of psychedelics render sometimes surreal but accurate echoes of the times and in a hauntingly romantic drama. Hauntingly romantic. --Julius D. Campbell, short story writer, Aspen, Colorado You haven't lived much, have you? --William Fowler, artist w...
This is the story of a young man from a hardworking family given every benefit and expected in return to serve the country and his family by being an economic success. He questioned the premises on which these expectations were grounded, and he was a seeker of the transcendent. His experience of the impact of war and of the mind-altering experience of psychedelics render sometimes surreal but accurate echoes of the times and in a hauntingly romantic drama. Hauntingly romantic. --Julius D. Campbell, short story writer, Aspen, Colorado You haven't lived much, have you? --William Fowler, artist who did not realize like Saul Bellow's Herzog, We live among ideas much more than we live in nature. --Bowdoinham, Maine The postlogue "Summer of Love," written like Amos Gambol's recently compiled manuscripts before 1980, and added here by permission of now retired proprioceptive writing coach and author, Joan Hunter, shines like a literary gem. --Comment from the Author, Andrews Bruce Campbell
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