Chasing Shadows: Memoirs of a Sixties Survivor

By: Fred Wilcox

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Synopsis: CHASING SHADOWS tells the story of a young man who pays a heavy price for pursuing his own dream. When he announces that he intends to be a poet instead of a doctor, his working class family thinks he&’s gone crazy. They send him to psychiatrists who shoot electricity though his brain, warn him that he&’ll never hold a job, and confide that he will suffer from nervous breakdowns all his life. After a stint in a state mental hospital, he spends the &‘60's on the mean streets of New York City, not as a fair-weather hippie with a room of his own in Scarsdale whenever he tires of the hard life, but as a fugitive from everyone, and everything, he once loved.