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DESCRIPTION:Begun as an outline when still a young lawyer around 1960 and finally 
 completed in prison when he was a tax resister 50 or so years later, J. 
 Tony Serra’s first novel takes place during World War II in the South 
 Pacific, the story of a court martial, filled with Serra's legal career 
 experiences.  The message, if there is a message, is that war is absurd; 
 treason is absurd; the death penalty is absurd--and that platonic love is 
 humanity's only redemption.\n\nA native son of San Francisco, J. Tony Serra 
 has dedicated his life to defending society's outcasts. After earning a 
 Philosophy degree from Stanford University, Serra went on to graduate from 
 UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law in the 60's, an era he calls "the 
 golden age of law."\n\n“I do believe that my mind began to ripen in the 
 1950s. I was young and naive, and found myself uncomfortably wedged between 
 the beatniks of the 50s and the hippies of the 60s. It turned out for me 
 that I couldn't go back in time and become part of the beatnik milieu; I 
 was too young. On the other hand, I was a little older than the Love 
 Generation, but they accepted me and I strove intellectually and 
 aesthetically in their direction. Also, I recall being victim of many 
 romantic fallacies, one of which was to be a Hemingway image, the 
 expatriate writer. So after graduating from Stanford in epistemology (a 
 philosophy major), I went to Tangiers, Morocco, hopeful to commence a 
 career predicated upon writing bad poetry and bad fiction, prepared to 
 become a never-blossomed flower in the Garden of Literature. ” –From 
 the Prologue, by J. Tony Serra\n\nAdmission is free. Published by Grizzly 
 Peak Press.\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/06/26/18788164.php
SUMMARY:Legendary Lawyer Tony Serra Reads From Novel on War and Death Penalty
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\n1680 Market Street\nSan Francisco, CA  94102
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/06/26/18788164.php
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