Richard Grossinger

Out of Babylon

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Richard Grossinger, an anthropologist by training, a cultural rebel by inclination, and supposed heir apparent to the great, eponymous Catskill resort by birth, presents an intense, personal story in the form of a nonfiction novel. Grossinger recounts old dreams, lists every college course in which he enrolled, and enumerates the courses he taught. Then there's the tarot, tai chi, and homeopathic studies; the poets and baseball heroes; the shamans and Edgar Cayce; the UFOs and monuments on Mars. He recalls his mean mother and painfully troubled brother, as well as multiple fathers and a phalanx of counterculture colleagues. Often it sounds li… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-883319-57-1
EAN: 9781883319571
Produktnummer: 9388496
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
Seitenangabe: 600 S.

Über den Autor

A graduate of Amherst College, Richard Grossinger received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan, writing an ethnography of fishing in Maine. He is the author of many books, a portion of which is listed below:Planet MedicineEmbryos, Galaxies, and Sentient BeingsThe Night SkyHomeopathy: The Great RiddleEmbryogenesisNew MoonHe and his wife Lindy Hough are the founding publishers of North Atlantic Books in Berkeley, California.