Andrew Edwards
POWDER HILLS

Tempest Press
ISBN 10: 0-9790232-0-3
ISBN 13: 978-0-9790232-0-0
Paper, 278 pp., 5.5x8.25
$14.95

“Gritty and real. A powerful novel packed with characters so real you could swear they were torn from the pages of your own life story.” —Rick Reynolds, Only the Truth is Funny

Post-sixties disillusionment has settled into the suburbs, where the youth are restless and the future looks like three lanes of heavy traffic and no exit. But for Rick Draper and his friends, things are almost more exciting than they can stand. Falsely accused of murder, eighteen-year-old Rick contends with rogue cops, conservative parents, packs of wild dogs, and his own sinking sense that the world is spinning out of control. Nixon has resigned and so too it seems Rick’s entire generation. But on the run, Rick develops a new sense of purpose as he attempts to save himself, the girl he loves, and escape Long Island alive…

In Powder Hills, Andrew Edwards has captured the spirit of the times and created a moving chronicle of youth culture in the early seventies. A world of scorned presidents, misbegotten wars, worsening real estate sprawl, migrant labor controversies, and a pop culture in dire need of a transfusion, this 1974 could be now. Combining a quicksilver narrative with a rich portrait of this neglected period, caught between hippie idealism and seventies cynicism, it is a stunning debut from an exciting new literary voice.

Andrew Edwards’ underground classic “Squashed Like a Bug” was performed in the East Village in the 1980s. Powder Hills is his first novel.

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