Season of the Witch

A Novel

James Leo Herlihy

• Publisher: RosettaBooks
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9780795351402
• eBook ISBN:
  9780795351228
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

By the author of M idnight Cowboy: A teenage girl runs away to the East Village in "one of the best and most convincing novels . . . of the Woodstock generation" ( Publishers Weekly).
 
As she explains in her diary, seventeen-year-old Gloria Random is running away from her Midwest childhood home. It's the fall of 1969, and her best friend John has been called up for the draft. It's time to escape the Big Finger, and their mundane lives.
 
Renaming themselves Witch and Roy, they head to New York City in search of Witch's biological father. Landing in the East Village, they fall into an underground world of mysticism, drugs, and free love as they burrow further into hiding from the realities they left behind.
 
In his last novel, the iconic author of Midnight Cowboy and All Fall Down captures the heady mix of anxiety and experimentation that permeated New York at the height of the anti-war movement. With his trademark wit and insight, James Leo Herlihy brings together a colorful cast of characters straight from the heart of the countercultural revolution.
 
"A tour de force!" — The New York Times
 
"Herlihy writes with an edge of iron." —Nelson Algren, National Book Award–winning author of The Man with the Golden Arm

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• CONTENTS
• BELLE WOODS, MICHIGAN, IN MY BED, SEPTEMBER 2, 1969
• DEPARTURE DAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1969
• AT THE LAKE, SUNDAY, JULY 13, 1969
• WESTERN UNION OFFICE, NEW YORK CITY, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1969
• CANAL STREET, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1969
• CANAL STREET, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1969
• CANAL STREET, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1969
• CANAL STREET, SEPTEMBER 12, 1969
• MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1969, 11 P.M., 23RD STREET AUTOMAT
• CANAL STREET, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1969
• CANAL STREET, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1969
• CANAL STREET, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1969
• CANAL STREET, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1969
• CANAL STREET, MONDAY NOON, SEPTEMBER 22, 1969
• THE STATEN ISLAND FERRY, 10 P.M. OF THE SAME DAY
• CANAL STREET, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1969
• CANAL STREET, 7:10 P.M., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1969
• WILL'S GREENHOUSE, SUNSET, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1969
• CANAL STREET, SEPTEMBER 27, 1969, 4:30 A.M.
• CANAL STREET, SEPTEMBER 27, 1969, 4:30 A.M.
• WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1969
• THE AUTOMAT, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1969
• THE LADIES' ROOM AT CAPRICORN CAPERS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1969
• IN MY ALCOVE AT CANAL STREET, BEDTIME, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1969
• THE SHEEP MEADOW, CENTRAL PARK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1969— MORATORIUM DAY
• WILL'S GREENHOUSE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1969
• ORANGE—WILL'S GREENHOUSE, OCTOBER 31, 1969
• BRIGHT GREEN—THANKSGIVING 1970
• RED—CHRISTMAS 1970
• ROBIN'S EGG BLUE—EASTER 1971
• MARIJUANA GREEN—FOURTH OF JULY 1971
• TURQUOISE—LABOR DAY 1971
• MAGENTA—NEW YEAR'S DAY 1972
• PINK—BEAUTIFUL SPRING DAY 1972
• PURE WHITE—THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1976
• BLACK AND WHITE AGAIN—WILL'S GREENHOUSE, OCTOBER 31, 1969
• ON JOSHUA'S BUS, ABOUT 100 MILES EAST OF BUFFALO, NOVEMBER 3, 1969
• SPATAFORA STREET, YORKVILLE, NOVEMBER 4, 1969
• SPATAFORA STREET, YORKVILLE, NOVEMBER 4, 1969
• SPATAFORA STREET, YORKVILLE, NOVEMBER 4, 1969
• BELLE WOODS, MICHIGAN, NOVEMBER 7, 1969
• IN MOTHER'S ROOM, BELLE WOODS, NOVEMBER 11, 1969
• IN MY ROOM, BELLE WOODS, NOVEMBER 13, 1969
• BELLE WOODS, NOVEMBER 14, 1969