Pillow Prayers: Love ruined, love reborn after the Summer of Love - Softcover

Murray, Margaret C

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979357330 ISBN 13: 9780979357336

Publisher: WriteWords Press, 2018

Synopsis

Hedonistically delightful, full of breathtaking exuberance, Pillow Prayers is set in San Francisco after the Summer of Love. At its center is sexy Beth, owner of a zen pillow stitchery, for whom life appears to be a hop, skip and a prayer on a psychedelic bus. Who could know she sews her pillows while maneuvering toward tragedy? Not Ruth, an academic, turned street artist. Nor skeptical Lonnie, grad student, seduced by the possibilities of this flower-child world. Orbiting around the women are Willie, Beth's "old man", Black Panther Avon, the father of Ruth's children, and the glittering zen master, Jones Roshi.

Free love, free speech, abundant drugs.

Hang out in San Francisco and Berkeley in the shadows of runaway youngsters, hipsters, old beatniks, newborn feminists, anti-war resisters and seductive gurus.

Fall into the abyss of pleasure. Love ruined, love reborn after the Summer of Love.

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret C. Murray was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Carnegie- Mellon University and Hunter College. She attended the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the Squaw Valley Screenwriters Conference. Teacher of From Heart to Paper Writing Workshops and grassroots literary publisher of WriteWords Press, Margaret lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Review:

Pillow Prayers by Margaret C. Murray is a moving story, a mystery that takes aim at both hypocrisy and grace in the conflicting times following the '60s.--Alice Elizabeth Rogoff, Editor, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, author of Mural

A moving and beautifully cadenced story. Anyone old enough to have lived through the tumultuous, free love, drug and color enhanced '70s will recognize these characters. The novel is a poem where it is the images and concepts that rhyme; Ruth high on her ladder, Beth stitching and fretting, and Lonnie swimming set a rhythm we follow from the early seventies to the twenty-first century. The women at the center and the various men who intersect their lives all come alive, with their desires, confusions and aspirations. You may want to re-read the opening just for the pleasure of the prose.--Geoffrey Fox, author of A Gift for the Sultan and Welcome to My Contri

Margaret C. Murray is one of the most lyrical and seemingly effortless writers I know. She is an observer of keen psychological details, but she is also a writer's writer, making magic of how words combine and form their sounds. I'd walk ten miles out of my way to read anything she writes.--M. G. Stephens, author of The Brooklyn Book of the Dead, Lost in Seoul, and Green Dreams

About this edition

• Publisher: WriteWords Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0979357330
• ISBN 13: 9780979357336
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338