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Cleo Odzer - Goa Freaks: My Hippie Years in India [Repost]
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Cleo Odzer - Goa Freaks: My Hippie Years in India
1995 | ISBN: 156201059X | English | 378 pages | PDF | 3.7 MB
1995 | ISBN: 156201059X | English | 378 pages | PDF | 3.7 MB
Goa Freaks: My Hippie Years in India is an account of Odzer’s five years in India, most of them spent in the fog of coke and smack addiction on Anjuna beach in Goa. The book is clearly Odzer’s own account of her life and her experiences in Goa – the title itself suggests this, but it’s difficult not to understand her account of Goa’s Freaks as representative of the entire culture of hippidom in Goa.
This is not your classic hippie tale. Cleo’s version of Anjuna is a zone infested with troubled young druggies with a penchant for making pots of money as drug runners. I find it hard to believe that through all her highs and lows, her trips and her going Coke Amuck, she would remember with such clarity the detail of each conversation she had at the time.
But few people come off looking good or terribly fascinating in Ozder’s account, which is at its best a great contribution to our understanding of a certain part of a particular culture of the 70s. The hippie communes of Ibiza, Kathmandu and Goa have often been talked and written about but rarely by an insider…