Walking the Midway in Purgatory
Subtitle: A Journal
Publisher: PublishAmerica
Published: October 26, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9781413745832
Subjects: Spirit communication & mediumship, spiritualism; Personal Memoirs; Body, Mind & Spirit; Alternate Spirituality; New Age; Spiritualism - General; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Genres: American History
First sentence: I was a creature void of form, in a place that had always been safe and warm.
Description: From Hiroshima to Abu Ghraib, the rocket fast narrative of Nick Masesso JR’s new book "Walking the
Midway in Purgatory": A Journal, takes us from the streets of 1950’s Chicago to early modern
American commune living populated with underworld & counterculture street heroes. From the
assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK to Kent State, Masesso lends perspective to these events and their
impact on America. In successive chapters we travel to the Narco State that is Columbia, SA and his
observations on the fall of Apartheid in racist South Africa from the inside of it's most notorious maximum security prison. We also glimpse the last throes of Portuguese colonial rule in Mozambique. 

"Walking the Midway in Purgatory: A Journal" written by Oakland, CA resident and first time author Nick Masesso Jr. is now available at amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com and through all American 
bookstores and through bookstores in a dozen European countries. The non-fiction travel journal and
political tome spans 40 years and 3 continents.  There are several items of Bay Area significance and
interest chronicled. Masesso gives proximity to and narrative for, the murder of David Nadel, the White Night Riots, both after the Milk & Moscone killings and after the Dan White acquittal, as well as the Peoples Temple mass suicide. The book also offers a view of what America was and what it has become with small stories and portraits of experiences with characters striving to create a life apart frommainstream values.
Table of contents: value: FORWARD; value: CHAPTER ONE: SEARCHING FOR CAMELOT; value: CHAPTER TWO: CHILD-HOOD; value: CHAPTER THREE: VOYAGE TO ATLANTIS; value: CHAPTER FOUR: ON THE WAY TO CARTAGENA; value: CHAPTER FIVE: HYPOCRISY DEMOCRACY; value: CHAPTER SIX: WAR WOUNDS; value: CHAPTER SEVEN: HOWL