description: In Old Glory, Quintus Ells has committed to writing a letter to the future (he presumes he will have a grandson in 100 years who will read Quintus’s circa 1969 musings). He has given himself 38 days in which to write up everything that he thinks is relevant about who he is and what his grandson should know about his life and times. At the end of that 38 days, Quintus will turn 18 and will become eligible for the draft, a despised duty which he does not contemplate dodging although it is firmly at odds with his freewheeling, grass-smoking lifestyle.With youth culture in full swing during the late 1960s, kids were allowed to be seen in a more complex light, with real troubles, strengths, and opinions. Where J.D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield was stifled by expectations that he should be a happy-go-lucky kid, Quintus had the freedom to be elated about his last grasp at responsibility-free youth before that fateful 18th birthday. He has plenty to be conflicted over, but instead chooses his last fling with hedonism before he has to truly commit to adult concerns. -- from a longer review by Michelle Davis via http://www.meetzorp.com.
language: English
title: Old Glory and the Real-Time Freaks: A Children's Story and Patriotic Good Time Book, With Maps.
titlecomplete: Old Glory and the Real-Time Freaks: A Children's Story and Patriotic Good Time Book, With Maps.
characters: Quintus Ells
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 12
publisher: Doubleday