My father's cabin

the long version

"A tale of life, love, loss, and land." "In the Rust Belt of the 1960s, a blue-collar father works double-shifts, chasing elusive dreams: a good night's sleep, eternal life, a cabin in the Allegheny Mountains where he can hunt and fish. His son is a child of the times, chasing his own dreams: girls, long hair, politics, and independence. And both chase the same dream: each other's elusive love. This is a familiar story uniquely told, in a voice that perfectly captures America at its most turbulent, an era that continues to define the largest generation in American history. Those Baby Boomer children are now parents -- even grandparents -- who have not forgotten what it was like to have the freedom to do anything, but often the desire to do nothing. [This book] ... chronicles life in America as the Greatest Generation gives way to the Me Decade, as responsibility gives way to self-fulfillment. And then back again as responsibility becomes self-fulfillment ..." The author presently lives with his family in his father's cabin in Ischua, New York.