Hollywood Park : a memoir

Resource Information

The work Hollywood Park : a memoir represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Nesmith Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Hollywood Park : a memoir

Title remainder

a memoir

Statement of responsibility

Mikel Jollett

Creator

• Jollett, Mikel

Contributor

• OverDrive, Inc

Author

• Jollett, Mikel

Subject

• Autobiographies
• Biographies
• California
• Cults
• Cults -- California -- 20th century
• Electronic books
• Jollett, Mikel -- Childhood and youth
• Rock musicians
• 1900-1999
• Synanon (Foundation)
• Synanon (Foundation)
• United States
• Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography
• Autobiographies

Genre

• Biography
• Electronic books
• Biographies
• Autobiographies

Language

eng

Summary

Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country's most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse. Yet, ultimately, his is a story of fierce love and family loyalty told in a raw, poetic voice that signals the emergence of a uniquely gifted writer. His story opens in an experimental commune in California, which later morphed into the Church of Synanon, one of the country's most infamous and dangerous cults. Per the leader's mandate, all children, including Jollett and his older brother, were separated from their parents when they were six months old, and handed over to the cult's "School." After spending years in what was essentially an orphanage, Mikel escaped the cult one morning with his mother and older brother. But in many ways, life outside Synanon was even harder and more erratic. In his raw, poetic and powerful voice, Jollett portrays a childhood filled with abject poverty, trauma, emotional abuse, delinquency and the lure of drugs and alcohol. Raised by a clinically depressed mother, tormented by his angry older brother, subjected to the unpredictability of troubled step-fathers and longing for contact with his father, a former heroin addict and ex-con, Jollett slowly, often painfully, builds a life that leads him to Stanford University and, eventually, to finding his voice as a writer and musician. Hollywood Park is told at first through the limited perspective of a child, and then broadens as Jollett begins to understand the world around him. Although Mikel Jollett's story is filled with heartbreak, it is ultimately an unforgettable portrayal of love at its fiercest and most loyal

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

B@L

Dewey number

782.42166092

Index

no index present

LC call number

ML420.J7394

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries