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Panther UK Paperback, originally published in 1972.
Ringolevio is a classic American story of self-invention by one of the more mysterious and alluring figures to emerge in the 1960s. Emmett Grogan grew up on New York City's mean streets, and later travelled to Europe, spending a long period of time working and carousing in Dublin which he details in this account.
Later, he ended up in sixties San Francisco and became a leader of the anarchist group known as the Diggers. The Diggers, devoted to street theater, direct action, and distributing free food, were in the thick of the legendary Summer of Love, and soon Grogan is struggling with the naive narcissism of the hippies, the marketing of revolution as a brand, dogmatic radicals, and false prophets like tripster Timothy Leary.
Heavy tanning to pages, this is alarge paperback, so the spine is curled/ cocked slightly as a consequence.
Ringolevio is an enigmatic portrait of a man and his times to set beside Hunter S. Thompson's stories of fear and loathing, Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night, or the recent Chronicles of Bob Dylan, who dedicated his 1978 album Street Legal to the memory of Emmett Grogan.
A lot of the content here is to be taken with a pinch of salt - read as partly imagined memoir rather than true life verbatim account. But it's a better tale for all that.
