In the tumultuous spring of 1968 a younger English lady, Rose, travels from London to the United States to meet a gentleman she knows as Washington Harold. In her suitcase are a polka dot gown and a one particular-way ticket. In an America not too long ago convulsed by the April assassination of Martin Luther King and subsequent urban riots, they start a research for the charismatic and elusive Dr. Wheeler-sage, prophet and, probably, redeemer-who rescued Rose from a dreadful childhood and in opposition to whom Harold holds a seething grudge.
As they adhere to their quarry cross-nation in a camper they experience the odd remnants of Wheeler acolytes who harbor festering cultural and political grievances. Alongside the way, a popular artist is shot in New York, mutilated soldiers are evacuated from Vietnam, race hatred explodes in ghettos and suburbs and casual madness blossoms at revival meetings.
A lot of believe America’s only desire is presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, whose marketing campaign trail echoes Rose and Harold’s pilgrimage. Each will conclude in Los Angeles at the Ambassador Hotel one notorious evening in June.
Subversive, sinister and marvelously vivid, Beryl Bainbridge’s fantastic final novel evokes a nation on the brink of self-destruction with artful brilliance.
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Ooh! I finally made the decision on a gown!
Which one?!
Are we going to get wedding pictures, Elisha? :/