Sleeping Where I Fall

A Chronicle

By: Peter Coyote

Narrated by: Peter Coyote

In his energetic, funny, and intelligent memoir, Peter Coyote relives his 15-year ride through the heart of the counterculture - a journey that took him from the quiet rooms of privilege as the son of an East Coast stockbroker to the riotous life of political street theater and the self-imposed poverty of the West Coast communal movement known as The Diggers.

With this innovative collective of artist-anarchists who had assumed as their task nothing less than the re-creation of the nation's political and social soul, Coyote and his companions soon became power players. In prose both graphic and unsentimental, Coyote reveals the corrosive side of love that was once called "free"; the anxieties and occasional terrors of late-night, drug-fueled visits of biker gangs looking to party; and his own quest for the next high. His road through revolution brought him to adulthood and to his major role as a political strategist: from radical communard to the chairman of the California Arts Council, from a street theater apprentice to a motion-picture star.

©1998 Peter Coyote (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

Outstanding Read

Peter grips you from beginning to end. He is a true visionary,and a great and gifted writer who Is not afraid to share his deepest struggles and failures to get to where he is today.
His section on global warming, toward the end of his book is both jaw dropping and inspiring. His descriptions of what was at the root of the hippie movement is a total eye opener, something one never saw in the corporate newspapers during the 60's. BW

one discriptive perspective

very entertaining. PC got some cojones recounting such a busy life. rock on. peace out

it was a great over view.

it was enjoyable, I was drawn by his perspective of the movement growing up. His narrative voice was easy listening.

Informative, moving and ultimately inspiring

I grew up just a little too young to be a hippie in the Sixties, but old enough to want to be and to adopt the values they stood for. This first-hand account afforded me an intimate account of one persons experience of those timed and a reminder of the importance of those values. Thank you, Peter Coyote.

Solid, but not great.

Coyote can write. and he's an excellent narrator. This reminded me a bit of Patti Smith's book. While i enjoyed it, it just didn't quite get to that next deeper level.