Spring Street Summer: The Search for a Lost Paradise

by Christopher Hudson

Tracking down the people with whom he shared one magical summer in the 1970s, the author recreates that summer, evoking the joy of love and youth and the pain of growing up. 12,500 first printing.

259 pages, Hardcover

First published November 23, 1993

Reviews

[Ann · Rating 2 out of 5]

The author, a middle-aged English editor and journalist, takes a trip back to the University of California, Santa Cruz campus, where he spent an enchanting summer in 1976, researching descriptions of Paradise in Western literature and falling in love with a local student. He discovers- surprise!- that not everyone in the rambling house was happy and that his memory was faulty, or at least very selective.

This book could have been more fun had it been a little more thorough in the reconstriction of that post-hippie summer and less heavy on the bits and pieces of the author's scholarly research.