Dance the Eagle to Sleep (Merlin Press)

They call themselves the Indians: Shawn, Corey, Billy, Joanna – four young people with a fair dose of sex, drugs and rock ’n roll (hippy style) – living a life of resistance. Piercy captures hopes and frustration in an era of alienation; a commune facing a Nixon-style USA wasteland where savage repression has levelled the ghettos and crippled the anti-draft movement. Originally published in 1970, Marge Piercy’s second novel follows the lives of four teenagers in a near-future society as they rebel against a military draft and “the system.” The occupation of Franklin High School begins, and with it, the open rebellion of America’s youth against their channelled, unrewarding lives and the self-serving, …