Escape From Elyria: A Historical Memoir of the 20th Century

Escape From Elyria, a Memoir, centers around a failing college student, Billy Radd, an atypical hero in a coming-of-age tale of romance and difficult complications.

As a 1960s draft-dodging college student in northern Ohio, he dates four affluent high school girls simultaneously, realizing too late that it was all a mistake. At the same time, Billy convinces his conservative parents to enroll him in a Hollywood film school, allowing him to escape from his girlfriends so he can find his personal “MacGuffin,” a deeply felt goal of discovering his one true love. This Vietnam-era story will remind readers what it’s like to be young, reckless, and to experience freedom for the first time as an adult, while making mistakes along the way, but trying to avoid the many pitfalls of building a career and finding the girl of his dreams.

Escape From Elyria, a Memoir, clarifies the rallying cry of a generation:

Sex! Drugs!! and Rock ’n Roll!!!