Ginny Good
Subtitle: a memoir (a mostly true story)
By: by Gerard Jones.
Publisher: Monkfish Book
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Rhinebeck, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
Subjects: Jones, Gerard, 1942-; Good, Ginny, b. 1941; Hippies -- United States -- Biography; Ashland (Or.) -- Biography; California -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
First sentence: I'm using everyone's real name.  They can all sue me.  I hope they do.  I could use the excitement.
Description: On one level, then, I've chosen to take the dark sadness that I found in some parts of Ginny Good and attribute them to the author's skill rather than things he had to endure. It seems a happier bet. You'll make that decision for yourself when you get there. But, unless you lived through 1960s San Francisco from the fringe spot from which Jones writes, it is possible you'll leave Ginny Good with a different view of the Summer of Love than the one you got there with.  Jones brings a sort of careless insouciance to Ginny Good. An early hippie devil-may-care ef-em-if-they-can't-take-a-joke attitude that pretends to mask deeper feelings. Pretends, of course, because it's clear that Jones cares deeply about everything that befalls him and Ginny and the others we meet in Ginny Good. And he wants us to know he cares, but he wants us to find our own way to that conclusion. It's this intelligent respect for the intelligence of his reader that makes Ginny Good sing. That, of course, and the simple fact that most of the book is set in a place and era that holds eternal fascination for a large part of the population: the social revolution of the early 1960s.
Table of contents: label: One
title: Ashland; label: Two
title: Del Mar; label: Three
title: Royal Oak; label: Four
title: Fifteen Mile; label: Five
title: Pacifica; label: Six
title: San Mateo; label: Seven
title: North Beach; label: Eight
title: Coyote Point; label: Nine
title: San Bruno; label: Ten
title: 45th Avenue; label: Eleven
title: Farmer's Market; label: Twelve
title: Clayton Street; label: Thirteen
title: Stockton Street; label: Fourteen
title: Pacific Heights; label: Fifteen
title: Boulder Creek; label: Sixteen
title: Clift Hotel; label: Seventeen
title: Vietnam; label: Eighteen
title: Ocean Beach; label: Nineteen
title: La Honda; label: Twenty
title: Shrader Street; label: Twenty-one
title: Foghorn Fish-and-Chips; label: Twenty-two
title: Haight Street; label: Twenty-three
title: Golden Gate Park; label: Twenty-four
title: Speedway Meadows; label: Twenty-five
title: Kentfield; label: Twenty-six
title: Cole Street; label: Twenty-seven
title: Sutro Heights; label: Twenty-eight
title: The Garden of Eden; label: Twenty-nine
title: Burlingame; label: Thirty
title: Manitou Springs; label: Thirty-one
title: Sacramento; label: Thirty-two
title: Hillsborough; label: Thirty-three
title: Scenic Hills; label: Thirty-four
title: Colma; label: Thirty-five
title: I-5