PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewFurst’s richly researched and detailed book gives us a vivid portrait of the Lower East Side in the ’60s and ’70s from the perspective of a radical milieu, but also from a child’s-eye, street-level view ... Freedom from a corrupt social order, as the characters achieve it, means excision from the economic webs that underpin not just material but social life. Is this a courageous or a foolhardy—even selfish—course? Revolutionaries examines the question from every angle, orbiting the evidence and arguments in a case it refuses to judge ... The novel’s ultimate beauty—like its characters’—is spiritual. It refuses to sanctify or condemn anyone ... In a deeply felt and often beautiful book, Furst has done his part to continue this song [of countercultural ideals].
Joshua Furst
RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewFurst’s richly researched and detailed book gives us a vivid portrait of the Lower East Side in the ’60s and ’70s from the perspective of a radical milieu, but also from a child’s-eye, street-level view ... Freedom from a corrupt social order, as the characters achieve it, means excision from the economic webs that underpin not just material but social life. Is this a courageous or a foolhardy—even selfish—course? Revolutionaries examines the question from every angle, orbiting the evidence and arguments in a case it refuses to judge ... The novel’s ultimate beauty—like its characters’—is spiritual. It refuses to sanctify or condemn anyone ... In a deeply felt and often beautiful book, Furst has done his part to continue this song [of countercultural ideals].
