Heavenly Breakfast: An Essay on the Winter of Love

Heavenly Breakfast: An Essay on the Winter of Love by Delany, Samuel. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9780917453335.

Cultural Writing. Memoir. HEAVENLY BREAKFAST is Samuel R. Delaneys wise and vivid essay on urban communes and cooperatives in the winter of Sixty-seven/Sixty-eight. It examines their function, structure, permanence, and impermanence as precisely as a sociological study. Because its method is narrative and anecdotal, however, it reads like a passionate memoir--a marvelous document from an extraordinary time. Based on journals he kept at the time, these pages recount his encounters with other communes and experimental living arrangements-some gentle, some brutal; of encounters between those inside and those outside the countercultural life; of idealism and hopes pushing against a resistant reality.