Aquarius Descending

The clash between individual needs and society's, the discord of the generations and the politics of war and peace underscore this compelling story of one man's struggle to overcome seemingly insurmountable odds while remaining true to himself. -The themes of Christopher Jessup's youth - idealism, values and honor - are bound up in the audacious wager he made decades before and by a past he hoped he could put to rest. -Now that his fourteen-year-old grandson wants to know more about one chapter of it, he is torn, not knowing how to answer or if he should. Vivid memories of Woodstock nation and brutal combat in Vietnam still war inside him. -He wants to explain himself - the strife with his father, his fateful choices and misfortunes. The grand conflicts of his life and their consequences remain unresolved. But what would the telling bring - understanding or disdain, redemption or complication, affection or scorn? And what would it mean for the rest of his life? The wager this time is with himself, and one he dare not lose. The author's "first novel" written forty-five years ago, resurrected, revised and published for the first time.