The First Few Friends I Had

San Francisco, early 1960s. The Beats have hitchhiked into immortality, and nobody's heard of hippies yet. Now, a small band of college students, bohemians and artsy riffraff begin their journey into the as-yet-unknown world of the Sixties. Here is a deeply personal memoir of those times. "Christopher Newton taps the spirit of an age, yet achieves a timeless universality...his touching tales of young love and early adult angst ring as true now as they did when he and his friends...
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San Francisco, early 1960s. The Beats have hitchhiked into immortality, and nobody's heard of hippies yet. Now, a small band of college students, bohemians and artsy riffraff begin their journey into the as-yet-unknown world of the Sixties. Here is a deeply personal memoir of those times. "Christopher Newton taps the spirit of an age, yet achieves a timeless universality...his touching tales of young love and early adult angst ring as true now as they did when he and his friends wandered the streets of San Francisco and the roads of America." - Leonard Sadorf "Chris brings together the strands that created the 60's as we know it. He remembers the details and calls them forth in a kaleidoscopic roller coaster ride from adolescence to adulthood, with memorable characters in between." - Gina Papen.