Tahoe, Berkeley, San Francisco. Vesuvio, City Lights Bookstore, Poor Pierre's, Cody's. Telegraph Avenue, the Haight, the South Shore and the North Shore. Dylan, Garcia, Keystone Berkeley, Commander Cody. The Sixties and the Seventies and Now.
Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll and Extortion.
Tahoe Basin Blues is a novel that I've been working on for many years. It is set in Lake Tahoe, obviously, and is based upon the time that I lived there during the decade of the seventies. It is Art vs. Commerce, Outlaw vs. Casino, Counterculture vs. Establishment. It is a group of artists, casino workers and intellectuals drawn together (as only Tahoe can pull people together) that plots revenge on a casino- a plot that ends as no one dreamt possible.
If you follow the link to Tahoe Basin Blues, you can read a few pages from Chapter One.
I'm sure there have been many novels written about Tahoe (although I'd be hard pressed to name one), but I've never read one that touched on the Tahoe that I lived in and that I loved- and somehow survived.
Anyone who frequents Tahoe or who has lived in Tahoe for any length of time at all, whether for a lifetime, a summer or a ski-season, will enjoy Tahoe Basin Blues. It most certainly isn't Shakespeare. It certainly isn't Salinger. But it surely qualifies as fun reading down at the nude beach.
I've linked to a couple of favorite sites here, and my blog, which I update (very) sporadically. I'm going to do more on that now that I've finally finished tinkering with the book.
Tahoe Basin Blues is available!
Ron Alcorn
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