The Washington Post, March 2nd, 2003
DROP CITY By T. Coraghessan Boyle Viking. 444 pp. $25.95 The hippie life may have been all about love and beauty, but when you got down in the muck and mire, little was lovely or beautiful about it. This condition, along with the solidly comfortable backgrounds of commune habitues, was enough to send the back-to-the- land movement crashing back to the suburban patio some 30 years ago. Forget those spirited harbingers of a life freed from material desire and other Western hang-ups. The earth-worshipping quotations from Thoreau, the mysticism of the Beatles-friendly guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, t...
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