The Rebellion of Yale Marratt was a controversial best seller. The author took on the whole of American morality and turned the story of one mans unconventional sexual life into a national controversy.
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In the sixties and early seventies The Harrad Experiment and Proposition 31 became watchwords for the "hippie generation". As millions of students on campuses across the country read and talked about his books, little did they know, their hero was well past thirty.Bob started writing early in life. As a high school student in Massachusetts in the 1930s, he wrote articles for, as well as helped print and distribute, a small local magazine entitled Boy's Pal. He graduated from Bates College with a multi-discipline degree in English, Psychology and Philosophy and later obtained an MBA from Harvard. His life has been an eventful one. His military service during and after World War II included both at-home and overseas assignments. After his enlistment was up, Rimmer returned to the US and took a position in the family printing business. He spent the next twenty-five years of his life working, raising a family, and collecting his life experiences and formulating them into what would later become events and characters in his many novels.His first two novels, The Rebellion of Yale Marratt and That Girl from Boston, were written before 1960 and were considered much too controversial to publish. However, after years of mail-order sales through a small publisher in California, Rimmer's The Harrad Experiment was published by Bantam in 1967 and was finally available to a wide audience. Within a year over a million copies had been sold. More novels followed, including Proposition 31. All of these novels explored alternatives to traditional relationships and sexuality, subjects very much at the forefront of the public's interest in the 1970's. Now in his eighties, Bob Rimmer, always in the vanguard in his advocacy of alternatives to the traditional monogamous relationship, becomes one of the first authors to recognize the potential of the Internet to bring his books to millions of new readers. With fourteen novels to his credit and still going strong, this author has not only bro
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Robert Rimmer book with a STORY, no less!,
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This review is from: The Rebellion of Yale Marratt (Paperback)
I guess it was all downhill after this, Rimmer's freshman effort. He was a real novelist in this one, but drifted from there to manifesto writer for the Sexual Revolution in subsequent books. We didn't so much gain an activist as we lost a storyteller. In this book, the naiive son of a rich industrialist goes to college, meets a Jewish girl and falls for her (in the "Love Story" mode, only this book predates that one)--but then brings his girl home to Daddy, and all hell breaks loose. Boy loses girl, later joins Army and marries Red Cross volunteer while overseas. Transfers and the general upheaval of WW II separate them, they lose track of each other, boy comes home and rekindles old flame with college sweetheart. But he's really still married to his war bride, and SHE comes back into his life. What a dilemma! If there wasn't so much of a radical "free love" aspect to it, you'd have a classic Cary Grant flick up to this point. Our Hero loves both his ladies--can they accept each other? And that's BEFORE legality comes into the picture. I think Rimmer meant this as a challenge to the assumption that monogamy is the only way, but this story really comes across as a classic triangle love story with an ironic twist-- they're ALL sympathetic characters, NONE of the three is the soap-opera "homewrecker", they get all sorts of grief from outsiders, NOT each other--it's not "you and me against the world"--more like "you and you and me against the world".
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An Oldie but a Goodie,
This review is from: The Rebellion of Yale Marratt (Paperback)
This book is an excellent read. I am very fussy with novels, and don't always finish them. With some, I simply havent the patience. But this one I read all the way through, in a matter of days, even taking it to work to read during my lunch break.
The story in brief: Yale Marratt is born to a privileged east coast family; his father expects him to take over the family firm. But son Yale is not happy with that. At University, he acquires a girlfriend: the fact that she is jewish, raises disapproving eyebrows. A few years later, America gets involved in WWII. Yale is posted to Assam, in northern India. He meets a Red Cross nurse, whom he marries in a hindu ceremony. This causes conflict with his superior officer. War over, he and the new wife return home, where they buy a Georgian farmhouse. Subsequently, he learns that his former jewish girlfriend is now a widow. They get together, and the three of them live together in the farmhouse. Unfortunately, the authorities disapprove, and Yale finds himself in court, charged with bigamy. The story has an epic sweep, and would make a good movie. Are you listening, Hollywood? I don't know if the author himself was ever polygamous, but he seems to have researched the subject well. The blurb on the back states that the author was burned in effigy, when the novel was first released (1961), and the author condemned. But it is a very good read.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Bob Rimmer's most personal book,
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This review is from: The Rebellion of Yale Marratt (Paperback)
The Rebellion of Yale Marratt is the first novel that Bob Rimmer wrote - though not the first one published; That Girl From Boston reached print earlier. It has the feel of a book that draws heavily on the writer's personal experiences - and, as the short autobiography published many years later in the 25th Anniversary Edition of The Harrad Experiment made clear, it does.Like Bob's other books, it covers non-monogamous loving - in this case, how to make a menage a trois work. But the strongest parts of Yale Marratt lie elsewhere; the texture of college life, of getting around the Army, of village life in India. Unlike some of Rimmer's books, this is one you will read for the story, not in spite of it.
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