Knock on Woodstock : the uproarious, uncensored story of the Woodstock Festival, the gay man who made it happen, and how he earned his ticket to freedom /
"In 1969 a million "hippies," music lovers and flower-children descended on the sleepy town of White Lake in New York's Catskill Mountains for the Woodstock Festival--three days of music, mayhem, drugs, sex and celebration. Now Elliot Tiber, playwright and professor of "absu...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Festival Books,
1994.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "In 1969 a million "hippies," music lovers and flower-children descended on the sleepy town of White Lake in New York's Catskill Mountains for the Woodstock Festival--three days of music, mayhem, drugs, sex and celebration. Now Elliot Tiber, playwright and professor of "absurd, twisted" comedy writing at New York's New School, tells the inside story of this unlikely event. Here is his uproarious and uncensored story of how, as a gay man, he escaped from the closet, and from the clutches of his dysfunctional immigrant family and their down-at-the-heels resort--the infamous El Monaco Hotel--headquarters for the event that defined a generation"-- |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy is inscribed by the author. |
| Physical Description: | xv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 096418060X 9780964180604 0964180618 9780964180611 |