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Communes? Free food, free housing, free love. Cool
Not at Rancho Armadillo, in northern New Mexico. The Armadillos have moved from both coasts, hoping to escape the evils of city living, but they wind up with gardens (making for hard work); houses (built with purchased lumber); and strict rules of behavior (instigating conflict after conflict). For on the side of a New Mexico mountain-not Mt. Olympus. as one Armadillo hallucinates-life, love and death rest heavily on the shoulders of some, but seem hardly to touch others. These cite dwellers might recognize the problems alcohol and drugs pose and the madness that may overcome anyone. But transporting chickens under a full moon? Delivering a calf and then milking the new mother? Filling a cistern in the snow? Hilarious, sort of.
And love well, is love ever free?
Judith Stephens' store of a commune in New Mexico in the Seventies describes a harsh environment. There is a raw, earthy humor to the author's voice. She gives us a nostalgic look at a bygone era. While at the same time revealing its dark underside.-Maria Espinosa. Dying Unfinished
The desert sunset bleeds red on the Jungian archetypes who walk on the dirt of this commune... The novel is wonderfully readable and planted firmly in the tradition of American Mythic.-Louise Murphy, The true story of Hansel and Gretel
In these linked stories, Rancho Armadillo is a commune in northern New Mexico inhabited by four families and assorted guests.
"The Natural Country Acid Queen," tells of Lindy's nude treks from a neighbor's house through the commune to meet her decidedly younger lover's parents. She hopes to arrive before them and clean and dress, but delayed by her usual haze and other commune members, she finds JoJo's parents already there as she enters, stoned, nude, and covered in mud. Will JoJo leave her?
In "The Visitor from Texas," 40-year-old Berna comes for a year-long visit from Amarillo. She quickly discovers the non-romantic side of communal living when everyone but her comes down with a killer flu, and she must walk endlessly in snow from sick house to sick house, from chicken coop to pigpen to cow pasture in order to keep every animal, including all the commune members, warm and fed.
"The Night of the Chickens" is pivotal for JoJo, the youngest member of Rancho Armadillo. It's become necessary to replace the five-year-old hens with half grown chicks that will produce more eggs. JoJo's previous efforts at roofing, plumbing, and other chores have resulted in the commune's ridicule, but he perseveres this night, carrying more chickens than anyone else. When the new chickens are let into the coop, a mini Trojan War ensues, with the old hens, led by Hecuba, trying to make mincemeat of the new ones.
Summoned by "Blackbirds," the commune's children come to a chilling revelation about Keely, their longtime adult playmate.
"Hermes" reveals Keely's sad voyage from his childhood friendship with his artist buddy, Marsh, into schizophrenia and the delusion that he lives not on a commune but on Mount Olympus.
"The Hot Springs" offers refuge on a cold walk home for Patrick and Kip, two young Armadillo guest workers. While waiting for dawn in the warm spring water, the two talk about life, volcanoes ù the source of the warmth they're sitting in ù and the Iliad. Though Patrick has spent time in the California Youth Authority, Kip, the injured son of rich people, finds more wisdom in his undereducated friend than he or anyone could expect.
"Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" are words that Marsh, Armadillo's main working artist and thorn-in-the-side needs ù desperately.
"Abel, the River, and the Burning Man" tells how Abel ù a compulsive rescuer if one ever lived ùmeets Nan and winds up lying in a hospital with burned hands.
In "JoJo and Whit and Glenda and Bimbo" JoJo finally proves his true worth to Whit, one of JoJo's most critical associates as he helps deliver Bimbo's calf. But the formerly stupid and placid Bimbo turns into a 1200 pound nightmare after the calf is born. This wrap-up story also reveals the probable fates of all the commune's members.
Not at Rancho Armadillo, in northern New Mexico. The Armadillos have moved from both coasts, hoping to escape the evils of city living, but they wind up with gardens (making for hard work); houses (built with purchased lumber); and strict rules of behavior (instigating conflict after conflict). For on the side of a New Mexico mountain-not Mt. Olympus. as one Armadillo hallucinates-life, love and death rest heavily on the shoulders of some, but seem hardly to touch others. These cite dwellers might recognize the problems alcohol and drugs pose and the madness that may overcome anyone. But transporting chickens under a full moon? Delivering a calf and then milking the new mother? Filling a cistern in the snow? Hilarious, sort of.
And love well, is love ever free?
Judith Stephens' store of a commune in New Mexico in the Seventies describes a harsh environment. There is a raw, earthy humor to the author's voice. She gives us a nostalgic look at a bygone era. While at the same time revealing its dark underside.-Maria Espinosa. Dying Unfinished
The desert sunset bleeds red on the Jungian archetypes who walk on the dirt of this commune... The novel is wonderfully readable and planted firmly in the tradition of American Mythic.-Louise Murphy, The true story of Hansel and Gretel
In these linked stories, Rancho Armadillo is a commune in northern New Mexico inhabited by four families and assorted guests.
"The Natural Country Acid Queen," tells of Lindy's nude treks from a neighbor's house through the commune to meet her decidedly younger lover's parents. She hopes to arrive before them and clean and dress, but delayed by her usual haze and other commune members, she finds JoJo's parents already there as she enters, stoned, nude, and covered in mud. Will JoJo leave her?
In "The Visitor from Texas," 40-year-old Berna comes for a year-long visit from Amarillo. She quickly discovers the non-romantic side of communal living when everyone but her comes down with a killer flu, and she must walk endlessly in snow from sick house to sick house, from chicken coop to pigpen to cow pasture in order to keep every animal, including all the commune members, warm and fed.
"The Night of the Chickens" is pivotal for JoJo, the youngest member of Rancho Armadillo. It's become necessary to replace the five-year-old hens with half grown chicks that will produce more eggs. JoJo's previous efforts at roofing, plumbing, and other chores have resulted in the commune's ridicule, but he perseveres this night, carrying more chickens than anyone else. When the new chickens are let into the coop, a mini Trojan War ensues, with the old hens, led by Hecuba, trying to make mincemeat of the new ones.
Summoned by "Blackbirds," the commune's children come to a chilling revelation about Keely, their longtime adult playmate.
"Hermes" reveals Keely's sad voyage from his childhood friendship with his artist buddy, Marsh, into schizophrenia and the delusion that he lives not on a commune but on Mount Olympus.
"The Hot Springs" offers refuge on a cold walk home for Patrick and Kip, two young Armadillo guest workers. While waiting for dawn in the warm spring water, the two talk about life, volcanoes ù the source of the warmth they're sitting in ù and the Iliad. Though Patrick has spent time in the California Youth Authority, Kip, the injured son of rich people, finds more wisdom in his undereducated friend than he or anyone could expect.
"Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" are words that Marsh, Armadillo's main working artist and thorn-in-the-side needs ù desperately.
"Abel, the River, and the Burning Man" tells how Abel ù a compulsive rescuer if one ever lived ùmeets Nan and winds up lying in a hospital with burned hands.
In "JoJo and Whit and Glenda and Bimbo" JoJo finally proves his true worth to Whit, one of JoJo's most critical associates as he helps deliver Bimbo's calf. But the formerly stupid and placid Bimbo turns into a 1200 pound nightmare after the calf is born. This wrap-up story also reveals the probable fates of all the commune's members.
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- VerlagLivingston Pr
- Erscheinungsdatum2010
- ISBN 10 1604890541
- ISBN 13 9781604890549
- EinbandTapa dura
- Auflage1
- Anzahl der Seiten124
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