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    The Commonwealth Club Presents Peter Coyote - Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle

    Presented by Kepler's Bookstore at San Jose Repertory Theatre

    August 31, 2009

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    The Commonwealth Club Presents Peter Coyote - Sleeping Where I Fall: A Chronicle
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    In his energetic, funny, and intelligent memoir, Peter Coyote relives his fifteen-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...

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    In his energetic, funny, and intelligent memoir, Peter Coyote relives his fifteen-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.

    Emmy Award-winning narrator and actor Peter Coyote has performed in more than fifty films, including Bitter Moon, E.T., Jagged Edge, Kika, Outrageous Fortune, and Sphere. His work with the San Francisco Mime Troupe was honored with a special OBIE, and he won a Pushcart Prize in nonfiction in 1994.


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    San Jose Repertory Theatre

    101 Paseo de San Antonio
    San Jose, CA 95113

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    $18-$45

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    Check-in: 6:30pm
    Program: 7pm
    Book-signing: 8pm

    Phone: 1-800-847-7730

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