Seeing Things Author:Charlotte Painter Frank Waters: "Uproariously funny and diabolically clever - just the same this is a disturbing book. It mirrors all of our uneasiness, our hidden fears, our desperate search for a way out of our tragic era. It is the fantasy of our common unconsciousness, brought up into our consciousness in living, dreadfully alive, images." Hugh Nissenson... more »: "A marvelous book: funny, mythic and illuminating. It flashes forth glimpses of the universe of the unconscious, with its universal ramifications, that we all share." Ivan Gold in New York TIMES BOOK REVIEW Experience San Francisco of the 70's through fresh eyes. With photographic clarity, Charlotte Painter creates a totally unique time and place we all remember, a time and place that may never have truly existed. Written when New Age was really new and the self was the last frontier, Seeing Things is a novel, a personal journey, a history lesson and the voice of your spirit guide all rolled into one. Not just another flashback, Seeing Things is a meditation on our times written with the zeal of a true believer and the perspective of a true survivor. "Psychocharlatanism, advertising, the women's movement, reincarnation, black power, the publishing world, guru-hunting, automotive mechanics, careerism, loneliness, anthropology, art, the penal system, youth and drugs, sex and death - all these and dozens more - are subjected to profound and humorous scrutiny in these pages-a novel that will give much pleasure." (New York Times)« less