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The Season of Love: Part 1 of The Secret Cycle

by F. Thomas Mürano

398 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #07-3119; ISBN 1-4251-6693-8; US$28.67, C$28.67, EUR19.58, £14.80

The Season of Love is a romantic story about the Sixties generation who fought the industrial military machine armed only with flowers, love and songs, and who stopped a war and the draft, without the use of violence.

About the Book

A monumental collective miracle happened to the Sixties generation. We were aware that it was the beginning of a new Renaissance for all of humanity; we were the first generation to see not only through the eyes of our minds but also through the eyes of our souls. We were the young Peace Generation speaking to the youth through art, poetry and music without any intermediaries from the older Generation.

This work of creative nonfiction is more memory than imagination, but it is not a perfect account of what happened. It is about a young man from an Italian-Catholic background, who grew up in an inner city neighborhood, studied Buddhism and Kung Fu in an underground temple in Chinatown, and his evolution into college student, hippie and antiwar revolutionary. It is also a story about finding love and the loss of innocence.

About the Author

Since my childhood, I have been documenting my life as an artist using drawings, paintings, sculptures and poetry to record my experiences. As a young adult, I learned that photography is a living art form. It is a piece of space in a space of time. It is chasing light, and becoming aware of its shadows. It is predicting the image in the mind's eye.

As a man and a world traveler, I kept a photo journal of my life's journey and of my many varied and unusual experiences in Asia. When I retired from a career of teaching, it evolved into my memoirs.

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