MacArthur Park: The Novel

by John Ponton

Overview

Take a trip back to the 1960s and experience the significant events of this decade through the eyes of Patrick Hanley - a young teenager desperately trying to grow up in a sea of confusion. At no time in recent American History have the different factions of our society been so polarized. This time period was a true test of the American way of life and the principles the United States was founded on.
MacArthur Park is a novel about growing up in the sixties - about six kids discovering themselves and about the turbulent times they grew up in. It's about how some of them survived and how some of them didn't. It's about how the war affected them and forced them to make decisions that would shape the rest of their lives.
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Product Details

BN ID:	2940016143897
Publisher:	John Ponton
Publication date:	12/24/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	624
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

The author is a baby boomer who grew up in a suburb of
New York City.
MacArthur Park has been a work in progess for nearly thirty years. Inspired by the words and music of Jimmy Webb’s song, the author started writing this novel shortly after its debut performance.
“I remember sitting there watching the television that night in 1969. Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show was a habit. I always checked to see which musical guests were on tap. Jimi Hendrix even showed up one night and blew the house away with just his guitar and ampliphier. But on this night an actor, Richard Harris, debuted a song written by an unknown, Jimmy Webb, by the name of MacArthur Park. I never forgot the song and a few days later, inspired by its lyrics, I jotted down the first outline for this novel.”
The thirty year time span for the creation of this novel has resulted in a somewhat unique way of presenting the essence of the sixties to its readers.
“I believe that everyone has at least one good story to tell. I
hope that you find this one to be mine.”

Editorial Reviews

'MacArthur Park: The Novel' by John Ponton takes you on a tailspin in time to those tumultuous 60s when we were caught up in tender issues like the war in Vietnam, racism, equal rights, abortion, free speech, drugs and everything else that era encompassed. Ponton expertly reminds us of the values we stood up for in a time when the very fabric of America was falling apart at the seams.

I loved the honesty of this book and Mr. Ponton's writing abilities in taking us through the various li

Sell Wriing OnLine - Dalla Franklin

Ponton¹s book is more real than surreal, the story of Patrick Hanley, a
teen trying to make sense of the world in the 1960s, when assassinations,
the fight for integration, and war made no sense.
Through family, friends and lovers, Hanley tries to come to grips with
the madness of those days. He discovers loyalty, love, sex, duty, honor, and
death and tries to find meaning in all of these.
Ponton¹s narrative is engaging, and I found myself caring about his

Tabor-Loris Tribune - Deuce Niven