IT’S THE SUMMER OF 1964 in Ocean City and the region seethes in racial unrest. The Vietnam War escalates. The Beatles lead the British Invasion in the takeover of rock-and-roll. It is the Age of Aquarius, and against this backdrop, Tom Delaney loses his college scholarship just a year before graduation. With no money or family to fall back on, he hopes to find work at a thriving beachfront to avoid the draft and salvage his dreams.
Delaney soon encounters new friends who vie for his talents and will dramatically alter his future. Wendy Morrison, a beautiful surfer girl, wants his heart, the volatile criminal John E. Walker needs an accomplice, an exotic astrologer Misty Vail desires control of his destiny, and the mob boss Louis “Spam” Spamanado wants his mind. Swirling in a maelstrom of bigotry, petty crime, prostitution, and cocaine, Delaney struggles against waves of unbidden change to avoid arrest and the loss of what’s left of his soul.
Aquarius Falling is a fateful story of opportunity, love, and decision.
Aquarius Falling
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Holden is bewildered, lonesome, ludicrous and also pathetic.
His difficulties, his failings are not of his very
own production yet of a global that is out of joint. There is nothing
wrong with him that a little understanding as well as love, ideally from his parents, couldn’t have
set right. Baffled and also unclear of himself,
like most 16-year-olds, he is watchful and observant as well as loaded with a specific wisdom.
His minor misbehaviors seem minor undoubtedly when contrasted with adult misbehaviors with which he is confronted.