03923cam a2200649 4500 545308436 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781250319586 1250319587 5ce0a31e-a67e-4747-bb26-2d44f215bea5 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4195376 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Rush, Chris. The Light Years [Libby] : A Memoir. Macmillan Audio, 2019. self discovery. books on tape. childhood. family life. suburbia. audiobooks. personal narrative . teenagers. Coming of age. audio books. counterculture. Roman Catholic. New Jersey. narrative nonfiction. psychedelics. Literary Memoir. drugs. drug culture. creative nonfiction. art school. vagabond. lapsed catholic. autobiographical writing. artists memoir. entertainment weekly best books of the year. artists autobiography. catholic memoir. escaping family. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 295MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 295MB. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b><i>The Light Years</i> is a joyous and defiant coming-of-age memoir set during one of the most turbulent times in American history.</b></p> <p>Chris Rush was born into a prosperous, fiercely Roman Catholic, New Jersey family. But underneath the gleaming mid-century house, the flawless hostess mom, and the thriving businessman dad ran an unspoken tension that, amid the upheaval of the late 1960s, was destined to fracture their precarious facade.</p> <p>His older sister Donna introduces him to the charismatic Valentine, who places a tab of acid on twelve-year-old Rush's tongue, proclaiming: "This is sacrament. You are one of us now."</p> <p>After an unceremonious ejection from an experimental art school, Rush heads to Tuscon to make a major drug purchase and, still barely a teenager, disappears into the nascent American counterculture. Stitching together a ragged assemblage of lowlifes, prophets, and fellow wanderers, he seeks kinship in the communes of the west. His adolescence is spent looking for knowledge, for the divine, for home. Given what Rush confronts on his travels—from ordinary heartbreak to unimaginable violence—it is a miracle he is still alive.</p> <p><i>The Light Years</i> is a prayer for vanished friends, an odyssey signposted with broken and extraordinary people. It transcends one boy's story to perfectly illustrate the slow slide from the optimism of the 1960s into the darker and more sinister 1970s. This is a riveting, heart-stopping journey of discovery and reconciliation, as Rush faces his lost childhood and, finally, himself.</p>. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. Lodato, Victor. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/4195376-TheLightYears.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5ce0a31e-a67e-4747-bb26-2d44f215bea5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/4195376-TheLightYears.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5ce0a31e-a67e-4747-bb26-2d44f215bea5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)