"Everybody Knows and Nobody Cares"

[abcrystcats]

I finally received this book via Amazon today. It's been out of print for years but you can still get used copies.

Apparently this guy got a Ph.D. in English and American Literature, did a lot of writing, some teaching,and various other things during the 60s and 70s. Then he divorced his first wife (leaving her everything of material value) and got himself a weird little cabin in the Adirondacks, where he began building boats and eventually met and married my cousin, by whom he has fathered a second family.

In 1971, he successfully published his one and only novel, titled "Everybody Knows and Nobody Cares" . My uncle was telling me about this, so I decided I'd get the book and read it. I've just started, and it's one of those hippie-on-the-road novels made popular by the Beat generation so admired on this website.

"Mason Smith's glorious first novel is to the 70s what Kerouac was to the 50s and Kesey is to the 60s" and there's more similar praise below that from the New York Times Book Review.

Please excuse my using this website to shamelessly push the book of a distant relation, but since this one has Beat connotations and I'm already finding it very well worth reading, I thought I'd share it, in case anyone's interested.

[mnaz]

Sounds like one I wouldn't mind reading....