Abstract from book jacket.
Set in the 1960s and 70s, Bare Roots is a coming of age novel about a sensitive, intelligent boy, Justin Crystal. Born in Wisconsin, Justin grows up from age seven in Southern California, an only child of divorced parents. When he goes away to a fundamentalist college, he discovers who he is through a passionate but ultimately futile love affair with his roommate. What the novel reveals are the roots of a young life, as it were, laid bare.
Clifton Snider is the author of eight acclaimed books of poetry, including The Age of the Mother (Laughing Coyote, 1992) and The Alchemy of Opposites (Chiron Review Press, 2000). His novel, Loud Whisper, was published in 2000. A specialist in Jungian literary criticism, his book, The Stuff that Dreams Are Made On: A Jungian Interpretation of Literature, was published in 1991. He teaches writing and literature at California State University, Long Beach.
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