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Chasing Shadows: Memoirs of a Sixties Survivor

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At just under 200 pages, Wilcox's memoir should be praised for it's ability to evoke such extreme levels of emotion from the reader. He makes us laugh, cry, love, and hate, and does so in a way that few authors can. His smooth yet unpredictable storytelling is eclipsed only by the situations themselves. Wilcox effortlessly carries the reader through the merciless streets of New York City in his quest for salvation and identity in the turbulent sixties. His memoir is an enormous literary achievement- and his survival is nothing short of triumphant.

This book covers the early era of the Lower East Side in the 60's in New York. Grim, but true. Only book I've found covering this start to the history of LES. This book is just like it was - I was there and know.

I partially read this book when I was trying to eradicate all the formating errors so that I could print out all 500 odd pages.
I think I did this twice.
Fred has created a new genre, the 'semi-fictional auto-biography'. In other words, he tells his story with modifications that make it difficult to know where the truth ends and the lies begin.
I guess that is the story of his life, so in that sense it is truthful.
Don't waste your money on this one.
Tony Donohoe