A BOOK OF DREAMS

by Peter Reich ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 25, 1973

It takes very little educated foresight to anticipate that Peter Reich's attempt to resolve himself or his life in the footsteps of his father Wilhelm would be a Sisyphean task. In fact when a strange girl joined him in bed and complained that she didn't know who he was, he answered ""I'm Wilhelm Reich's son."" His book of dreams is actually a book of memories (""My childhood is the dream. It is all there and real"") of the man who died when he was thirteen but before that was warning Peter (called ""Peeps"") about the deadly pollutant he called DOR or about Them -- ""carriers of emotional plague"" -- or about the Someone who might try to kill him. There is also a good deal about Reich's cloudseeding-rainmaking activities in the last years up in Maine before the law enforcement agents came to dismantle his accumulators ultimately taking him to the prison Reich feared he would not survive. Much of this will be familiar to the readers of Reich's own material or his wife's reminiscence but it is to a degree recharged by the boy's very strong attachment to his father and the years and years he spent ""running away from the tomb.

Pub Date: April 25, 1973

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Harper & Row

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1973

Categories: NONFICTION