"The Incredible Dog Act" by Trent Eglin
Set in the 1960s, Trent Eglin’s novel, “The Incredible Dog Act” (ISBN 1453870253), evokes the feel, and even the sounds and smells of a youth culture where everything seemed not only entirely possible, but increasingly likely.
This compelling coming-of-age story begins when second-year medical student Isaac Holdt scores his first cap of LSD from Peyote Bill, a fugitive hippie dealer with the feds always three days behind him, and ends in the med school’s autopsy lab where Isaac has barricaded himself with two hostages, both already as dead as they’ll ever be.
The reader follows Isaac as he is drawn into a risky campus anti-war protest – equally grisly and inspired. Soon, the only people who make sense to him are revolutionaries and mystics, and Isaac grows ever more anxious about his chances of squeaking through school before the comfy world where his childhood ambitions were shaped completely unravels, and he right along with it.
Eglin wrote this book for baby boomers, their children and anyone else looking for a slice of the ’60s beyond the stock adolescent freak show in Indian drag, up to its love beads in irony, and hopes readers will enjoy both a highly original and wryly humorous depiction of one of those rare cracks in the momentum of history when basic assumptions lay exposed for serious – sometimes even reckless – reexamination, this time set to a thumping soundtrack.
“Trent Eglin captures the zeitgeist of the 1960s beautifully, with a unique power, eloquence and vision. My hat’s off to him. The Incredible Dog Act sticks in memory long after the final pages.”
—Nicholas G. Meriwether, Grateful Dead Archivist, University of California
“The Incredible Dog Act” is available for sale at Amazon.com and other channels.
About the Author:
Trent Eglin holds a master’s degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. A published academic writer, he has also freelanced as a newspaper film critic.
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