{"product_id":"nort-finding-myself-in-the-big-apple-in-the-sixties-paperback","title":"Nort: Finding Myself in the Big Apple in the Sixties - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoe Rossi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Only their enigma brains cold decode each nort's encrypted meaning\" This is a true story about a middle-child introvert who grew up in a culture bound family in Buffalo during the 1950s, when life was simple, prescribed and predictable; you graduated high school (hopefully), and then either got a job, got married to jump start the future clan or joined the local mob; neck and aspirations not required. Believing himself absent the day that social skills were dispersed, Joe feels lost and invisible within his own family and longs to discover the 'know-how' that will reveal the secrets about how to connect with other people in his world. He searches for mentors from whom he believes he can acquire the know-how he so badly craves; credible adults, other kids and Charlie Chan aphorisms, but none of these help. True to his unplanful nature, he forgoes the neighborhood prescribed options and instead decides to enter a foreign world; college, where he meets people very different from his own neighborhood, including Nicole, a Long Island gal. Once again faced with decisions after graduation and on another impulse, he decides to follow Nicole to New York where he meets a bunch of characters who become his apartment 'dwellers' and falls into a series of odd jobs, drugs and wild adventures. But is is through those very experiences that he finally begins to learn the know-how that he has been searching for all his life; 'the real joy in life is the going-not the getting there', and he learns the Buddhist wisdom of anatta or 'no self' This books is a humorous, witty account of Joe's personal search for authenticity, set within the context of the social-political events that were occurring in America in the fifties and sixties; the VietNam war, hippies, drugs, psychedelic music and the civil rights movement. The story is told with parallels between Joe's personal revolution as it unfolds during the larger social-political revolution occurring at the time. Each chapter is introduced by a significant political and a cultural event\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 354\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 27, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53849129222451,"sku":"9780990745112","price":24.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/BYA-lurLGQ9780990745112.webp?v=1786568072","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/nort-finding-myself-in-the-big-apple-in-the-sixties-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}