Homeless in Paradise: Communicating with the Bohemian Venice Beach Subculture by William O'connell

Homeless in Paradise: Communicating with the Bohemian Venice Beach Subculture by William O'connell

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Homeless in Paradise: Communicating with the Bohemian Venice Beach Subculture by William O'connell

Take an eye-opening, thought provoking and captivating journey into the underbelly of this heart wrenching, riveting, lifestyle which takes place on Venice Beach, CA. Read fascinating stories by Professor O'Connell who captures the mood, spirit, and torturing thoughts of ten random homeless people ranging from people with mental illness to the consciousness of one of the most spiritual homeless, a Native American man who is an Astrophysicist with a PhD called The Chief who has been a civil rights activist through all of the movements against oppression, which transformed America in the 1960's, homeless twenty-seven years. Relive the stories of broken war torn Vietnam Veterans, homeless transsexuals and the chilling cruelty of public ridicule they face to the story of a homeless woman who has appeared on the show COPS, arrested more than 180 times after a horrific tragedy defines her life to which she has never been able to recover. She leads the author into the center of underground homeless.
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ISBN 13 9780557035014
ISBN 10 0557035015
Title Homeless in Paradise: Communicating with the Bohemian Venice Beach Subculture
Author William O'connell
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Lulu.com
Year published 2009-01-19
Number of pages 354
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