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Ringolevio

Emmett Grogan

1972480 pagesabout 7–11 hours
1972
first published
  • 1972Little, Brown · 498 pages · ENG
  • 1972Heinemann · 498 pages · ENGISBN 9780434305759
  • 1974Penguin Random House · 576 pages · ENGISBN 9780586040010
  • 1974Éditions j'ai lu
  • 1999Rebel Inc. · 480 pages · ENGISBN 9780862418939
  • 2008New York Review Books · 512 pages · ENGISBN 9781590172865
  • 1990Citadel TradeISBN 9780380015306
  • 1990Citadel Press · 532 pages · ENGISBN 9780806511689

Ringolevio is a classic American story of self-invention by one of the more mysterious and alluring figures to emerge in the 1960s. Emmett Grogan grew up on New York City's mean streets, later washing up in sixties San Francisco and becoming a leader of the anarchist group known as the Diggers. The Diggers, devoted to street theater, direct action, and distributing free food, were in the thick of the legendary Summer of Love, and soon Grogan is struggling with the naive narcissism of the hippies, the marketing of revolution as a brand, dogmatic radicals, and false prophets like tripster Timothy Leary. Ringolevio is an enigmatic portrait of a man and his times to set beside Hunter S. Thompson's stories of fear and loathing, Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night, or the recent Chronicles of Bob Dylan, who dedicated his 1978 album Street Legal to the memory of Emmett Grogan.

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