Gene Smith

IntroductionThe Atomic Age was born in the summer of 1945. Its adolescencelike most adolescenceswas characterized by tantrums, feel-ings of guilt, a sense of living dangerously, and a rapid growthin strength. Though now having passed the age of twenty-oneand technically arrived at manhood, the...

cV^h>pac3Ksip-ah-jickmeans "very smal! young donkey" in Turkish and that is what she was.One burningly hot afternoon in Cyprus, in the island's hilly countryside, Rifat, grandson of the old Turkish Cypriot farmer, Arif Ali, came out into the field where Siyergar, the family donkey, had been grazing...

Prologue California: 1954 Dolly Drake got oiF the bus at Sunset and Vine. In the heat-shimmery air the sidewalk seemed to heave as she stepped down onto it in an almost seesawing motion, as if she were standing on the deck of a ship at sea. Her stomach pitched and her head throbbed. Before her...