Playing in the Apocalypse

Remembering the Isla Vista Riots

Biography & Memoir
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Author: Kate Comings ISBN: 9781483525532
Publisher: BookBaby Publication: April 21, 2014
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Kate Comings
ISBN: 9781483525532
Publisher: BookBaby
Publication: April 21, 2014
Imprint:
Language: English
It was 1970. Kate and Joel were lovers during the riots in Isla Vista, a once sleepy, palm-studed, beachfront student community next to the University of California, Santa Barbara campus. For Kate, raised by repressive fundamentalist Christian parents, Isla Vista was the first place in her life that felt like home. She loved to browse the bookstore and take long walks along the beach. There were concerts and street dances just about every weekend… and then her world came apart. Kate’s apartment was right on the police patrol loop, where armored trucks full of cops shot the tires of parked cars and lobbed tear gas canisters at the apartment buildings. She and her roommate barricaded the door and hid until something happened that galvanized them into action. In between the fires, the rage, and the night the bank went up in flames, a tender love story unfolded between Joel and Kate. It was a terrifying and life-changing year. Packed with details and drawn from the author’s own experiences, “Playing in the Apocalypse" is a time capsule of a scary, but in many ways simpler, era.
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It was 1970. Kate and Joel were lovers during the riots in Isla Vista, a once sleepy, palm-studed, beachfront student community next to the University of California, Santa Barbara campus. For Kate, raised by repressive fundamentalist Christian parents, Isla Vista was the first place in her life that felt like home. She loved to browse the bookstore and take long walks along the beach. There were concerts and street dances just about every weekend… and then her world came apart. Kate’s apartment was right on the police patrol loop, where armored trucks full of cops shot the tires of parked cars and lobbed tear gas canisters at the apartment buildings. She and her roommate barricaded the door and hid until something happened that galvanized them into action. In between the fires, the rage, and the night the bank went up in flames, a tender love story unfolded between Joel and Kate. It was a terrifying and life-changing year. Packed with details and drawn from the author’s own experiences, “Playing in the Apocalypse" is a time capsule of a scary, but in many ways simpler, era.

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