The Foundations of Kindness

by Richard Vission

Overview

The Foundations of Kindness is a tale of love, politics, murder and assassination in Sixties Chicago told from the vantage point of the mountains of British Columbia in the Seventies. Plus contemporary commentary. Young revolutionaries take on the Chicago Democratic Party machine with disastrous consequences for them and their movement. Fifty years later some of them are older, wiser, weaker but uncowed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771834735
Publisher:	Guernica Editions, Incorporated
Publication date:	05/01/2020
Series:	Essential Prose Series , #175
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Richard Vission became a novelist as a teenager in a seminar with Saul Bellow, but when he quit school to write the great American novel, he discovered he lacked imagination. It took him many years of living to compensate for this lack, but eventually he acquired enough experience to write six novels. The Foundations of Kindness is the first—and last—of them. Most of it was written in 1975-6. The logues (prologue, dialogues, epilogues) were added between 2014 and 2018. After leaving Chicago he lived thirty-five years in the West Kootenays of British Columbia and six years in China. He presently lives in the Victoria area of Vancouver Island.