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Jimi Hendrix turns eighty

Guy Fontaine realizes that the residents in his assisted-living facility are living out their golden years in tribute to the 1960s and becomes involved in a media circus involving an illegal pet cat, the facility's domineering administrator, and governor Drew Barrymore.

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  • "Reluctantly taking up residence at an assisted-living facility outside San Francisco in 2023, Guy Fontaine realizes that his aging-hippie fellow residents are living out their golden years in perpetual tribute to the 1960s and becomes involved in a mediacircus involving a resident's illegal pet cat, the facility's domineering administrator, and governor Drew Barrymore."
  • "Guy Fontaine, widowed, forced into retirement, and transplanted to his daughter's guesthouse in northern California, drives his golf cart on the freeway and becomes an involuntary resident in assisted living at Mission Pescadero, where the old-timers yearn for their 1960s lifestyles."
  • "Guy Fontaine realizes that the residents in his assisted-living facility are living out their golden years in tribute to the 1960s and becomes involved in a media circus involving an illegal pet cat, the facility's domineering administrator, and governor Drew Barrymore."@en
  • "It's 2023, and Guy Fontaine is an unwilling new resident at Mission Pescadero, an assisted-living facility outside San Francisco. It doesn't take him long to realize that his fellow residents have reverted to the lifestyles they embraced in the sixties, complete with sex, drugs, and rock and roll (with a little Viagra thrown in for good measure). The Mission Pescadero staff, and the world outside, would like nothing more than to forget these aging hippies, but the residents want-no, demand-to be treated with respect and dignity. And they'll fight for it. When one resident's prohibited cat is discovered by Mission Pescadero's domineering administrator, the resulting confrontation mushrooms into an epic battle between authority and anarchy, complete with twenty-four-hour media coverage and the involvement of California's governor, Drew Barrymore. As tensions escalate, Guy finds himself cast as an unlikely radical in a drama he doesn't understand. By turns outrageous, hilarious, and, ultimately, touching, Tim Sandlin's new novel is a fascinating exploration of how the baby boomers are facing their own mortality. Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty is Sandlin at his iconoclastic best."

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  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"
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  • "Fiction"

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  • "Jimi Hendrix turns eighty"
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