Fiction. A "novel of the counterculture," Gurney Norman's DIVINE RIGHT'S TRIP elicited comparison to Salinger and Kerouac upon its publication in 1971. "DIVINE RIGHT'S TRIP shows itself to be a subtly written and morally passionate epic of the counterculture, a fictional explication of the hopeful new consciousness come to birth.Divine Right is bigger than life, and in giving the story thus far of a segment of his generation, in prose nicely threaded between the vernacular and the symbolic, Gurney Norman has shown a noble reach and a healthy grasp." - John Updike
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Divine Right's Trip will get you high and leave you there.,
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I originally read this novel as "serialized" in the Whole Earth Catalog. They put each short chapter, sometimes only a few paragraphs, in a narrow column on every-other page of the catalog. I'll bet I've read this book four times. Divine Right's Trip is so intensely, so honestly human that it hurts. Stick out your thumb and hitch a ride with hippie Divine Right and his girlfriend, Estelle as they bump along in Urge, D.R.'s psychedelically-painted VW bus. To read this book is to trip. For those of you who haven't tripped, the sensation was summed up well by the very friend who bought me that Whole Earth Catalog 'way back then. He admits to "dropping acid" back in the late 60's. He told me once that tripping is like sneaking into the circus by crawling under the tent: Sometimes you get the clowns, sometimes you get the lions. And that reminds me of something Divine Right read, written on a bathroom wall somewhere along his trip: (paraphrasing) "There are nights when the wolves are silent and the moon is howling." Just read the book. --LW
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This trip is definitely divine!,
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Anyone who wants to know how to overcome the trappings of this shallow materialistic world and become a free and uplifted person, look no further. Divine Right is the most honest, soulful, lovable character that I have ever encountered in literature, and his struggles with family and identity should hit home with anyone who has ever had to rethink their view of self. I read this book once and had to read it again and again and again...I am a better person for it. Norman's descriptions of Kentucky are so perfect, and anyone who's never met the Greek in one form or another should definitely get ahold of this book ASAP!
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30+YEARS LATER, GURNEY'S NOVEL IS A CHUNK OF OUR HISTORY,
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This is a classic piece of American history. For those of us who were fortunate to live in the 60's, it will make you cry and it will make you laugh out loud. For younger readers, take a trip with Gurney back to a time when everything of the fertile mind was possible and "far-out". My favorite character: "The Lone Outdoorsman". Enjoy the ride and arrive alive!
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Here comes D.R. Davenport, Divine Right he calls himself after that incredible stoned-out afternoon when the words Divine Right formed in the clouds above the meadow where he was lying in the grass looking up and breathing deeply in awe of how really simple everything is when you come right down to it; Divine Right he calls himself, D.R. for short, driving along the highway now through a dark and rainy night in his VW microbus, Urge. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hypnotism man, rabbit shit, magic pearls, future box, red tent Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Divine Right, Lone Outdoorsman, City Girl, Trace Fork, Spider Woman, Anaheim Flash, Friendly Persuasion, Johnny Hero, Big Hill, Reverend Bagby, San Francisco, Finley County, Gilded Lilly, Barry Berry, David Ray, Fess Parker, Magic Rabbit, Billy Graham, Dewey Carbo, Happy Pappys, New York, Tom Ginsberg, Uncle Emmit, Word Quiz, Black Dragon New!
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Here comes D.R. Davenport, Divine Right he calls himself after that incredible stoned-out afternoon when the words Divine Right formed in the clouds above the meadow where he was lying in the grass looking up and breathing deeply in awe of how really simple everything is when you come right down to it; Divine Right he calls himself, D.R. for short, driving along the highway now through a dark and rainy night in his VW microbus, Urge. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hypnotism man, rabbit shit, magic pearls, future box, red tent Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Divine Right, Lone Outdoorsman, City Girl, Trace Fork, Spider Woman, Anaheim Flash, Friendly Persuasion, Johnny Hero, Big Hill, Reverend Bagby, San Francisco, Finley County, Gilded Lilly, Barry Berry, David Ray, Fess Parker, Magic Rabbit, Billy Graham, Dewey Carbo, Happy Pappys, New York, Tom Ginsberg, Uncle Emmit, Word Quiz, Black Dragon New!
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