Twenty Four Years of Mondays is a novel that takes place in New Yorks EastVillage, the home of Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan and a host of others at the endof the Beat Generation. The book sketches the life of Gideon Polinsky, his love for the deceased writerHerman Hesse culminating in a bizarre existence as a hopeless madman caughtup in several lifestyles. It is a dilemma of the very guts of the creative mind with its madness, its hunger,its suffering, and building to a crescendo within existence where the end connectsthe reader to the horror of possibility. Gideons lifestyle is extremely diverse, relentlessly packed with a raw, devouringpainful side of life capturing the verve and passion of Greenwich Village in theearly 60s.