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This memoir follows a life from the 1930's Great Depression in a small Northern Wisconsin town, through almost a century's worth of dramatic change in society, family life, politics, health care and spirituality. Dr. Paul Corcoran muses about family, war, medicine, politics and religion, and how rapidly and drastically society has changed in his lifetime. The memoir ends with his observations on love, life, death, and how to save the world.
"In a Dublin tearoom a meeting of strangers unfold, a tale of the past and the future, and odyssey of discovery, love, heartache and loss. It is an encounter between a man leaving his new owrld skyscraper home and an older woman enshrouded in the joyless routine of a genteel, ancient city. Separate paths of self-discovery are soon diverted to an urgent and more hazardous journey, the desire to discover each other." -From back cover.
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The sixties, in all its wildness, joys, psychedelics and vagabonding, with a haunting romance and the Vietnam War as a backdrop, author Gary Paul Corcoran calls The Trip Into Milky Way, the other side of Vietnam and what happens to a young man when he refuses to die for his country. Based on his own, real life experiences, the minute Clay Matthews walks out of an induction center in LA, he becomes not only a man without a country, but ostracized from family and friends. Clay's only hope is to find a place in the sun, an odyssey that leads him from a sojourn in the South Pacific to smuggling drugs across the Mexican border to a sojourn along the Mexican Riviera and ultimately incarceration in...
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