<P>What happened to the idealism of the 1960s? This question has haunted a generation. Outside the Gates of Eden follows two men from their first meeting in high school to their final destination in the twenty-first century. Alex is torn between his father's business empire and his own artistic yearnings. Cole finds his calling at a Bob Dylan concert in 1965.</P><P>From the Summer of Love in San Francisco to Woodstock from campus protests to the SoHo loft scene from a commune in Virginia to the outlaw country music of Austin the novel charts the rise and fall of the counterculture—and what came after. Using the music business as a window into half a century Outside the Gates of Eden is both epic and intimate starkly realistic and ultimately hopeful a War and Peace for the Woodstock generation.</P>
