1960s counterculture
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Author_Ira Robbins
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female anti-hero
going underground
new left
radical politics
satire
terrorism
Vietnam War
Product details
- ISBN 9780984253920
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Feb 2010
- Publisher: Trouser Press Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In his first novel, Kick It Till It Breaks, veteran music journalist Ira Robbins satirizes the foibles and fanaticism of '60s radical activists.
Ydinia Ochreman is the leader of a terrorist organization; her travels and exploits drive the story, which involves a colorful cast of dubious characters, including the incompetent FBI agent on her trail, a pacifist protest leader with a complicated agenda, a cranky peg-legged bar owner, an Irish atheist on a quest to end organized religion and a lost soul from Memphis who ends up in London. The dark humor of Kick It Till It Breaks is tempered by abiding respect for those who sacrificed their lives to end the war in Viet Nam.
Ydinia Ochreman is the leader of a terrorist organization; her travels and exploits drive the story, which involves a colorful cast of dubious characters, including the incompetent FBI agent on her trail, a pacifist protest leader with a complicated agenda, a cranky peg-legged bar owner, an Irish atheist on a quest to end organized religion and a lost soul from Memphis who ends up in London. The dark humor of Kick It Till It Breaks is tempered by abiding respect for those who sacrificed their lives to end the war in Viet Nam.
A lifelong New Yorker, Ira Robbins studied to be an electrical engineer but became a music journalist instead. He co-founded Trouser Press magazine in 1974 and ran it until the end, in 1984. He was subsequently an editor at Video magazine, the pop music critic for New York Newsday and editorial director in syndicated radio. He has authored or edited more than a dozen books and contributed to many more. He now runs Trouser Press Books.
