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*Growing upside down in the Nineteen-Seventies*

A slice of life from a time gone by, a story of youthful folly, of stumbling cluelessly into the gaping maw of the age of Aquarius and living to tell the tail. Um, tale.

A transplanted Yankee longhair living in nineteen-seventy-something Atlanta, young Mr. T finds himself wrestling with naked commie roommates, toothless rednecks, flatulent dogs, gun-toting silversmiths, Indian fox-spirits, conniving neighbors, hot Swedish blondes and basically the world at large.

Mr. T and his wastrel buddies inhabit a dilapidated Tudor on Morningside Drive, the best side of town. Blots on the landscape, they go about their idle hipster ways with slacker abandon. But there’s change in the wind and Beauregarde, a hognose snake with appetite issues, is headed their way. Beauregarde’s entrée into the wayward household heralds the beginning of the end of a decade as well as the collapse of the Morningside household. It’s all turning into one big fat nasty hassle, a hassle that Mr. T is haplessly doing his best to avoid. Surrounded by the lunacy of his so-called friends, foes, neighbors and a Noah’s Ark of incarcerated animals, he’ll be lucky just to make it through the month.

Reading like a post-pubescent stateside Adrian Mole on 'shrooms, this is a ribald tale of hipster youth in 1970’s America, the way it really went down.

The e-book and paperback versions of The Beauregarde Affair are now available on Amazon: http://amzn.to/sxRFTg (also UK), published by PfoxChase Publishing, an imprint of Pfoxmoor Publishing.

Interesting convergent of thoughts RE: time machine. That is to say I just sent off some question yesterday that described historical fiction as a "time machine".

Jeremy A. wrote: "Interesting convergent of thoughts RE: time machine. That is to say I just sent off some question yesterday that described historical fiction as a "time machine"."

Synchronicity? Pretty sure I didn’t swipe it. Not consciously, in any case.

You misunderstand. :)

I definitely wasn't trying to say you swiped it.

I just thought it an interesting coincidence is all.

Jeremy A. wrote: "You misunderstand. :)

I definitely wasn't trying to say you swiped it.

I just thought it an interesting coincidence is all."

I didn't think you were. Sorry if I gave you that impression. I was just wondering if I had read it somewhere. :)

Anyway,

Is this book purely fictional or more a semi-autobiographical sort of thing?

Well ... that depends who's asking (don't want to get sued by anyone who identifies with a seedy character). I've called it narritive non-fiction. Let's just say that the vignettes within the main story have a definite root in reality. But I have taken a year or two and compressed it into a month. And of course, all of the dialog is ‘recreated’. I have a very good long-term memory, but not that good.

Understood.