Nirvana Blues: A Novel - Hardcover

Nichols, John Treadwell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0030592569 ISBN 13: 9780030592560

Publisher: Holt, 1981

Synopsis

The new and affluent with-it residents of the northern New Mexico town of Chamisaville, a microcosm of American society, are into organic food, eastern mysticism, good dope, and serial monogamy

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Transcendentally profound, also achingly funny...like a wonderful poem, or a great restaurant."

-- Los Angeles Times Book Review

"An epic scope, a wide-screen background, a large and varied cast of charming eccentrics and truly rotten villains."

-- The Washington Post

"Nichols makes us yearn for heroes, saviors of the land, preservers of stability, natural beauty, integrity of relationships among friends, spouses, parents, and children."

-- The Cleveland Plain Dealer

From the Inside Flap:

The seventies are over. All across America, the overgrown kids of the middle class are getting their acts together -- and getting older. The once-tight Chicano community of Chamisaville is long gone, and the Anglo power-brokers control almost everything. Joe Miniver -- faithful husband, loving father, and all-around good guy -- is about to sink roots. To buy the land he wants, he embarks on a coke scam and ends up in erotic adventures with three headstrong women....

About this edition

• Publisher: Holt
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0030592569
• ISBN 13: 9780030592560
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 527