Will Slater

The Wicker Pensky Chronicles: First Days of the Revolution Will Slater

FIRST DAYS OF THE REVOLUTION is the story of a young man coming of age in the early 1960s, before the words "hippie" and "counterculture" had been coined, when many disillusioned youths were rejecting their culture and following their own internal compasses.
Wicker Pensky had been unhappy with his life for years. Postwar America was prudish and banal, suburbia was spreading across the country like mayonnaise - bland and monotonous - and the excitement of discovery had been sapped from the learning process. Wick wanted to live more freely and creatively than society allowed, and he longed to return to a more natural existence. He dropped out of college, set out to find a more libertarian lifestyle, and landed in the middle of the bohemian underground, where he finally felt at home. He lived in various utopian communities, including a Walden Two, and ran with a troupe of actors dabbling in Shakespeare and street theater.
Wick's observations and insights, salted with humor and peppered with ironies, vividly portray the people he encountered - a growing population of dissenters and misfits like himself - and capture the excitement of those revolutionary times.