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Get in, hold on, and shut up!
This wonderful baby-boomer-gone-wild autobiography captures the essence of 1960s America and beyond. I followed the karma of Marc DuQuette in one sitting, hanging on as he careened wildly from one adventure to the next, making me laugh and breaking my heart. It's worth the read simply to get inside the head of a man who will think to himself, upon being thrown to the ground by police, "What's the karma with my nose and the street?" I loved this book.
Melissa B. Latimer,
Riverside, CA
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Orange Sunshine: How I Almost Survived America's Cultural Revolution
Between shoot-outs with vigilantes, he immerses himself in psychedelics, yoga, and Eastern Philosophy. All this prepares him in a twisted way for his most colorful and self-destructive life as a political revolutionary, his involvement with the notorious Cuban-based Venceremos Brigade (a revolutionary group violently opposed by anti-Castro agents) and finally, with the Maoist October League/Communist Party Marxist-Leninist. After expulsion from the Party for drunkenness, a wild, downward spiral of alcohol, drugs, guns, and jail propels him to his bottom - a place where there was nowhere else to go but up.
Marc has also written a screenplay of Orange Sunshine that is registered with the Writer's Guild of America. If you would like to help Marc get his amazing story on the big screen, please email him.
In the heart of the turbulent Sixties, when his life and his country exploded in chaos and mad idealism, Marc DuQuette, outlaw biker and hippie commune leader joins the Revolution in an attempt to answer the questions deep within his restless soul.
This is the story of a man and an era - a crack in time in the history of American culture - a war baby's roller coaster ride of hot rods, guns, dope, revolution and redemption. It's action-packed and heartbreakingly hilarious. Playing against the beat of primitive R & B and the birth of rock and roll, Marc morphs from teenaged soldier to outlaw biker, to peace activist, to hippie leader and then to commune organizer.
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Born in 1942 in, Long Beach, California, Marc's sense of patriotism and desire to be of help to his fellow man launches him on a spiritual quest, resulting in his hitting bottom - morally and spiritually. In Orange Sunshine, Marc writes with wit and honesty about his experiences, revealing a very personal, yet universally appealing, perspective on the chaos and turmoil of this country's most disaffected generation of the 20th Century. Today? Marc has been an addictions counselor for over twenty years. He lives in Southern California, and frequently travels to India to recharge his spiritual batteries.
