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Native State is memoir set in the 50s and early '60s that follows a young man attempting to escape the confines of his celebrity-filled alcoholic family in Hollywood, who chooses the life of a jazz drummer in bohemian Europe.

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I had never heard of Tony Cohan before seeing this book, and deciding to read it. The title and cover caught my eye. Interesting life he has had. He is about a half-generation older than I am, and while I remember some of the era he talks about, my experiences were far far different.

Native state: a memoir. Tony Cohan is the author of eight books, including the bestselling travel memoir On Mexican Time and the novels Opium and Canary, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Cohan, whose On Mexican Time discussed events later in his life, tackles his young adulthood in this eighth book.

A captivating, deeply affecting memoir chronicling a journey from a Hollywood childhood as the son of a fading show business figure to a bohemian life in Europe and back to his native state of California, where the author must face the man who had driven him away. Native State - Tony Cohan. Throughout, Cohan brilliantly interweaves and contrasts his past experiences with his present-day reflections on the universal youthful desire to flee home and family, and the simultaneous undertow of origins urging a return. The result is a work that combines unusually rich storytelling with extraordinary literary quality.

Book Description A captivating, deeply affecting memoir chronicling a journey from a Hollywood childhood as the son of a fading show business figure to a bohemian life in Europe and back to his native state of California, where the author must face theman who had driven him away. Summoned from abroad to attend to the father he’s never been close to, writer and musician Tony Cohan finds himself reliving his own peripatetic life-a kaleidoscopic odyssey from California’s sunny postwar promise through the burnt end of the 1960s to the final days of the last century.

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Tony Cohan is an American travel writer, novelist, and lyricist. His best known work of travel writing is On Mexican Time. His memoir

Tony Cohan (born December 28, 1939) is an American travel writer, novelist, and lyricist. His novel Canary was selected New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and his novel Opium was a Literary Guild Selection. His memoir Native State was chosen Los Angeles Times Notable Book of the Year.