But instead of a sequel, Winslow’s “The Kings of Cool” offers a prequel, delving into the threesome’s eccentric family history, showing how they settled into a happy, almost normal, ménage … trois. With director Oliver Stone’s film version of “Savages” now in theaters, Winslow returns to his three main characters - independent marijuana millionaires Ben and Chon and their mutual girlfriend Ophelia. In the hands of a lesser talent, this approach would be irritating, but Winslow made it work. Then there was Winslow’s unconventional, sparse prose with some chapters consisting of only a couple of words, a couple of sentences running vertically down the page and occasional paragraphs resembling haiku or written as a script. Each multidimensional character was both a hero and a villain. Winslow’s 13th novel featured an action-packed plot loaded with fringe characters, brutality and gallows humor that neither glorified nor judged the California drug trade. Had babies, Ben, we had you and we had hopes but we also had fears we created nests that became bunkers we made our houses baby-safe and we bought car seats and organic apple juice and hired multilingual nannies and paid tuition to private schools out of love but also out of fear.Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menuĭon Winslow’s brash 2010 novel “Savages” finally moved this talented author from a cult-like status to the mainstream. What happened when childhood ends in Dealey Plaza, in Memphis, in the kitchen of the Ambassador, your belief your hope your trust lying in a pool of blood again? Fifty-five thousand of your brothers dead in Vietnam, a million Vietnamese, photos of naked napalmed children running down a dirt road, Kent State, Soviet tanks roll into Prague so you turn on drop out you know you can't reinvent the country but maybe you reimagine yourself you believe you really believe that you can that you can create a world of your own and then you lower that expectation to just a piece of ground to make a stand on but then you learn that piece of ground costs money that you don't have.Īltamont, Charlie Manson, Sharon Tate, Son of Sam, Mark Chapman we saw a dream turn into a nightmare we saw love and peace turn into endless war and violence our idealism into realism our realism into cynicism our cynicism into apathy our apathy into selfishness our selfishness into greed and then greed was good and we
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