"Disneyland Closes At 35" the much anticipated novel by Texas author Jim Mills is now available in paperback from Amazon. The book is the first print edition from Anapra Media Group, an imprint of Perkerson Park Press. The Kindle version has been available online since February.
"Disneyland Closes At 35" paints a portrait of American culture during one of the most tumultuous periods in its history by illuminating the lives of two young men and two young women from childhood to thirty-five years of age.
Jack Steele and Sunny Buck Mathews begin and end as friends, despite the fact that their lives take very different paths. Jack to Star Havens, a young woman who poses nude in the dark underbelly of the Los Angeles night life, to the jungles of Vietnam, and to the United States Marshall's Service. And Sunny to Janet, who poses nude for University of Chicago art students, on to Canada as a war protester, and finally back to Jack.
Set amidst the sights and sounds of the post World War II economic boom, the Cold War, the social upheaval of the 1960s and the Vietnam War, "Disneyland Closes At 35" serves as a guide to those who came after and a reminder to those who lived through those times.
Jim Mills, Ph.D. is an adjunct professor of philosophy at several colleges in the Dallas, TX area. He is a veteran of the Vietnam War, and spent 35 years in the fields of intelligence and criminal justice. Mills has published numerous short stories in literary journals in the U.S. and abroad before penning his first novel. Raised in small town America and the desert Southwest he brings a rich collection of experience to his writing and tells the story of a tumultuous era with authenticity.
