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The Electric Affinities by Wade Stevenson is a novel which introduces readers to the concept of a 1960s lifestyle of sexual freedom, emotional freedom, self-expectancy, and experimental drugs. Author Wade Stevenson introduces his readers to the cultural realm and birth of a "self expressive, free American Culture," at the end of the Baby Boomers era in 1969. The summer of 1969, New York, is a time and place of great love, appreciation and admiration of art and of individual freedoms - physical, emotional, and sexual - as well as an intellectual, rich, social class. Readers are introduced to the open minded, self-indulgent, artistically unique, different six characters of The Electric Affinities. Presented in each chapter is a film director, a Vietnam War veteran, an architect, a former Vogue model, a free spirited young woman, and a French-born female friend. They walk different paths of life individually, but are all connected.
The author uses great talent in presenting characters and story plots with a conversational, descriptive, and elaborate style of writing. A reader can be immensely drawn into each chapter theme and character through a highly relatable emotional connection. Readers are presented with a great knowledge and acceptance of the time, lifestyle, and personal emotions of each character's needs, desires, comforts and weaknesses, as if they themselves once knew these characters directly. This is an exciting and intriguing novel, offering readers the chance to venture into one of America's most complicated eras. Reading this novel, a reader can get a better understanding of the individual emotions and thoughts of persons living in that era.
