Divine Right’s Trip: A Novel of the Counterculture

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