The Hour of the Innocents, by Robert Paston
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1968. Vietnam. Social turmoil. Drugs. Music.Four young musicians are determined to escape a ravaged industrial landscape by playing rock and roll...and they play it with a passion and brilliance that contrasts with their poverty. Music is the only hope they have.
Set against a fleeting age when music seemed about to change the world, Robert Paston's The Hour of the Innocents tells the story of the band known as The Innocents and captures the true drama of the late 1960s―not the glitter of famous names, but the yearning of the heartland guitarists and drummers who believed…and the lovers, friends, and lives crushed along the way.
The Hour of the Innocents, by Robert Paston- Amazon Sales Rank: #6811758 in Books
- Brand: Paston, Robert
- Published on: 2015-06-23
- Released on: 2015-06-23
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.90" h x .86" w x 5.69" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
From Booklist In Pennsylvania coal country in 1968, four friends look to their music to launch them out of their small-town world. Although most post-adolescents yearn to leave the nest, for these kids, the bid for freedom is desperate and deeply personal. Plagued by oppressive home situations, the intoxicating lure of drugs, and haunting memories of Vietnam, they dream of changing the world with their music and, if not the whole world, at least their own lives. With a charismatic lead singer, a gifted bass guitarist, and a creative songwriter, the Innocents have the talent and the passion to make it happen, but that kind of success can come at a price. Paston’s ode to this heady era of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll is deep and wide-reaching. Energetic and referential music scenes contrast starkly with the intense flashbacks to Vietnam. And through it all, his characters’ struggles to keep their dream alive depict harsh realities about poverty and class disparity. Evocative and engrossing, this story will leave readers deeply affected. --Cortney Ophoff
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“Blue-collar rock & roll...Bruce [Springsteen] built his house on such a foundation. It all plays out in The Hour of the Innocents: the love, the hurt, the sweet pain and exhilaration of being in a band when there was still a dream to die for.” ―Larry Kirwan, of the band Black 47
“A moving and evocative tale that resonates with the truth of having lived through a turbulent time. Its belief in music as a way of redemption is deeply felt and exhilarating, and the Vietnam scenes are vivid and heart-pounding.” ―Don Scardino, producer and director of 30 Rock
“This is about so much more than 1960s Rock--the War, drugs, family, all brought together in a band that never got the break it deserved. For at least one of the characters, Vietnam was easy. The dangerous place was Schuylkill County.” ―Larry Bond, New York Times bestselling author of Shattered Trident
“Robert Paston's first novel The Hour of the Innocents is so smooth, so assured and so beautifully written that from the first couple of paragraphs you are back in the post-Vietnam sixties, smack dab in the middle of the Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll. I lived it as a young ex-GI, and I lived it again reading Innocents. Hate to use tour de force--but damn, this book nails it!” ―David Hagberg, New York Times bestselling author of Castro's Daughter
About the Author Author of The Hour of the Innocents and a self-described "psychedelic relic," ROBERT PASTON has pursued a varied, adventurous, and satisfying life (and was sometimes pursued himself along the way). He now lives and writes under tall trees with his saintly wife and a few good guitars-including an old Les Paul.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A real gem By Nina L. Keneally Yes, THE HOUR OF THE INNOCENTS is about four friends hoping that music will be their way out of the ravaged coal country of Eastern Pennsylvania in the height of the late 60’s but it’s also about so much more.Robert Paston successfully and completely captures the times, the place and the dreams. The dreams that are so close to coming true and yet, still, so far out of reach. The dreams of those four friends but also the dreams of those who orbit around them.I grew up in a similar world and still struggle to understand my roots, my youthful self, the times in which I matured and the ways that all of that continue to resonate in my life. This extremely fine novel is what I look to fiction to do. Give me appealing yet flawed characters, set the scene with authenticity and then tell both a romantic and painful story with a sharp eye and unflinching honesty. Not a bad way to look at one’s own roots and make some uneasy peace.Many others will rightfully note the remarkable accuracy in Mr. Paston’s portrait of the musicians and the music, the exhilaration and the pain. I’d like to add my admiration of his portrayals of “home” and the women who fought their own battles, dreamed their own dreams in a time and place where those where hard-fought and, too often, tied to those other Innocents.It’s the rare novel that touches all of these bases is and also an enjoyable and exhilarating read.Mr. Paston, I look forward to your future works.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Wonderful distillation of an era By B What a great book. Seems like the protagonist and I may have lived parallel lives, I am still a working musician and have seen just about everything from a stage over the years from alcohol fueled assassination attempts to emerging sweet love. What a world! Life distills itself into a crowd at a venue, and that soupy mix entertainer/entertained drives the context in which the relationships of band members in The Innocents play out. Paston writes about what he knows with an easy loping narrative style. I would have loved to see "The Innocennts" on stage.The book combines the same kind of gritty reality with the love of music as P.F. Kluge's Eddie And The Cruisers, Paston populates the book with characters who are real: nuanced, maddening, inconsistent, talented. In other words, believable human beings. He clearly writes with a skeptical love of the era and the times, capturing the beauty of the belief in a dream and placing that against the stupidity and brutality of drugs and egos, an inspired narrative arc. I could go on about the crassness of the talentless bar owners and promoters who seep in and out of the story, but shan't. Dang! They're in there too!A really wonderful book that passes the sticks-with-me test. The characters remain with me today, as clear in their depictions as when I first met them. I love 'em and hate 'em still!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. I love this book By Mark S I love this book. Reading it is like going to a terrific concert, you don't want it to end, you need to tell people about it, and you can't wait until the next performance. Every other book on my bookshelf seems hopelessly flat. As soon as I finished it, I started reading it again. How often does that happen? The characters in this book are full of life, unpretentious, emotionally honest, supercharged on hormones, forever getting in trouble, but mostly decent, especially the hero of the book. Out of this chaos the band the story is mostly about happens to be offering the transcendental jolt that kids (and us old music junkies) live for. Robert Paston's writing skills are simply astonishing. Who can you compare this guy too? Maybe Kerouac or Orwell or Ballantine at their best, but these guy's best stuff is non-fiction. Paston is more creative. I thought some of the book might be over the top, but maybe not. A vast menagerie of wild characters inhabit the American hinterland. They are incredibly tough - they have to be to take the abuse they visit upon themselves. Thanks for this book Robert - a great read.
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