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Jokerman 8 is a posse of forest radicals based out of San Francisco State University that engages in a series of demonstrations and stunts to protest environmental destruction: they sink whaling ships in Iceland and stage a "tree-in" in southern Oregon, then party to let off steam. Along the way, numerous subplots merge the past (1960s) with the present (1990s): a young man tries to escape the draft, and yippies succeed in levitating the Pentagon. Challenging and irreverent, the text moves at a breakneck pace, stopping just long enough to question how the world got the way it is and how it might be fixed.
Jokerman 8,Richard Melo,Soft Skull Press,1932360344,Environmental protection,Environmentalists,Fiction,Fiction - General,General,Literary,Pacific Coast (U.S.),Popular American Fiction,Wildlife conservation,General & Literary Fiction
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