by Manuel Abreu Adorno
Originally published in Spanish in 1978. To read And the Hippies Came is to find yourself surrounded by names and places that became history, but it will also
surprise you with the sheer force of its stories and conflicts. During
his time, Manuel Abreu Adorno was eulogized by Julio Cortazar. In his
pen there was pulse of pop culture that gave immediacy to everything he
wrote, and makes more inexplicable and inexcusable the fact that he has
been lost to memory since his departure from this world. In this, his
quintessential first book of twelve short stories, Abreu explores the
hallucinating dimensions of life through the perspective of different
social classes.Llegaron los hippies / And the Hippies Came has now been released as a “flip” version that will read through to the middle in Spanish, flip it over, and it will read through to the middle in English. This is the first time that this cult-classic will be available in English.
(Siete Vientos)
Host: Aga
Fecha/Hora: Sunday February 24th @ 4pm
Location: Heartland Cafe (7000 N. Glenwood - Rogers Park, near Morse Red Line stop). http://www.heartlandcafe.com
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