Butĭisappointingly, the meeting of visions catalyzes no real sparks. Nonagenarian Greenen about actual Boston locations used in it. And indeed, Walsh not only talks about the novel he interviews the Ground zero the confluence of time, place, and weirdness is too good not
He has to: his book is aboutĬultural developments in and around Boston in the late 1960s, with ’68 as One man’s demand that God account for Himself – suspects that Walsh willĮngage with it sooner or later. Reader who knows the Greenen book – a comic fantasia about art forgery and Walsh’s nonfiction narrative Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 (Penguin 357 pp.). Greenen’s 1968 novel It Happened in Boston? would have done perfectly for Ryan H. Van Morrison performing on Boston Common in 1968.
