Description: Originally published in 1971, thiscountercultural hippie road novel follows Divine Right Davenport's cross-country journey in his VW van, Urge. Blending humor, social insight, and Appalachian roots, the novel explores identity, freedom, and belonging as it captures the rebellious spirit of the 1960s.
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Praise for the first edition: "Divine Right's Trip shows itself to be a subtly written and morally passionate epic of the counterculture, a fictional explication of the hopeful new consciousness come to birth." --John Updike, New Yorker