Divine Right’s Trip

Fiction. A “novel of the counterculture,” Gurney Norman’s DIVINE RIGHT’S TRIP elicited comparison to Salinger and Kerouac upon its publication in 1971. “DIVINE RIGHT’S TRIP shows itself to be a subtly written and morally passionate epic of the counterculture, a fictional explication of the hopeful new consciousness come to birth.Divine Right is bigger than life, and in giving the story thus far of a segment of his generation, in prose nicely threaded between the vernacular and the symbolic, Gurney Norman has shown a noble reach and a healthy grasp.” – John Updike