Play Power
by Richard Neville
"The politics of play. The strategy which converts the Underground to a brotherhood of clowns; the lifestyle which unites a generation in love and laughter. In Chicago, its Pigasus the pig for President and Abbie Hoffman throwing kisses to a bewildered jury."I bought this in the early 1980's without the faintest idea about who the author was - the editor of the counter-cultural magazine Oz who was prosecuted for obscenity (twice). On revisiting the book after 40 years it's fascinating but obviously very dated. I finished it just before the visit of the friend that I wanted to give it to.
The Diary of a Nobody
by George and Weedon Grossmith
"The details of English suburban life are presented through the anxious and accident-prone character of Charles Pooter. His diary chronicles his daily routine, which includes small parties, minor embarrassments, home improvements, and his relationship with a troublesome son."Lovely little book deserving of its success, with funny little endnotes explaining, presumably to a non-English reader, all sorts of words, names and phrases, like chimney-glass (a mirror over the mantelpiece) and a dandy horse (an early form of bicycle).
A Lost Lady
by Willa Cather
narrated by Kitty Hendrix
"The story of Captain Daniel Forrester and his wife Marian, who live in the western town of Sweet Water, along the Transcontinental Railroad in the 1920s. Neil Herbert, a boy who grows up in Sweet Water, admires the Captain and his beautiful, vivacious wife, who have the genteel lifestyle of small-town aristocrats and entertain powerful men."It was pleasant enough, but not as good as the previous book I read by the same author (My Ántonia); there just wasn't quite enough story.
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