Charge Author:Bill Amidon Jesse Faulcon, the novel's anti-hero, is a long-haired, dope-smoking, lustful one-eyed hippie living in New York's Lower East Side in the early sixties. Jesse and his hip friends find themselves out of tune with a world they find too restrictive but with which they must deal in their efforts to achieve the 'good life.They elect to avoid, wheneve... more »r possible,such mundane things as working, wearing suits, ties or shoes, and taking themselves too seriously. They do not avoid sex, drugs, digging each other,poetry, music, more sex, and poking fun at the Straight Life. Jesse digs beneath the 'cool' surface of the Lower East Side and finds an almost desperate need for love [and] discovers that the generation gap doesn't end with his generation." Ah, the Sixties.« less