University Boulevard

It's 1967, and while the world is turning topsy-turvy, the twosome seeks refuge within the walls of Sigma Zeta Chi. But Peachy's bid to pledge doesn't come easy; in fact, he finagles his way into the frat house, along with the first non-white to ever pledge a college fraternity in Oklahoma, a full-blood Kickapoo Indian named Larry Twohatchets. And when the pledge class seems it couldn't take on one more misfit, along comes Smokey Ray Divine, a golfing hippie that lives on the razor's edge. Amy, Audora, and Cassie are the three muskarettes who steer the boys through college life, helping to protect them from the Vietnam tentacles that keep trying to reach through the windows of the fraternity house and pull the members into the jungle. But as the fraternity men cope by building their walls thicker and thicker, they discover that the enemy comes from within. Over the course of their four college years, faith is born through the death of their dreams. The Age of Aquarius meets The Age of Apollo in this flirtation with a mystical college life on University Boulevard.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10/01/2004
ISBN: 9780393324211
Pages: 389
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.60w x 0.96d
Award: Oklahoma Book Award - Finalist

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2004 pg. 825
Publishers Weekly 09/27/2004 pg. 38