Goa Freaks: My Hippie Years in India [Cleo Odzer]

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Goa Freaks : My Hippie Years in India

Cleo Odzer

Blue Moon Books, NY. 1995. First edition paperback. An excellent copy; a few dings to the corners, a tiny scuff on the rear cover, but clean otherwise.

From the publisher:

"In this lively and unique document of 1970s-style hedonism, we follow the futher adventures of Cleo Odzer, whose first book Patpong Sisters was a best seller. Goa Freaks begins in the mid 1970s and tells of Cleo's love affair with Goa, a resort in India where the Freaks (hippies) of the world converge to partake in a heady bohemian lifestyle. To finance their astounding appetites for cocaine, heroin, and hashish, the Freaks spend each monsoon season acting as drug couriers, and soon cleo is running her own "scams" in Canada, Australis, and the United States. (She even gets her Aunt Sadie in on the action.) Wish her earnings she builds a veritable palace on the beach- the only Goa house with running water and a flushing toilet. Cleo becomes the hostess of Anjuna Beach, holding days-long poker games and movie nights and, as her money begins to run out, transforming the house into a for-profit drug den. Tracing Cleo's love affairs, her stint hiding out at the ashram of the infamous Bhagwan Rajneesh, and her sometimes-harrowing drug experiences, Goa Freaks: My Hippie Years in India is candid and compelling, bringin to life the spirit of a now-lost era."

Truly awesome book, I'm glad she put this down on paper before passing on into the great Rave in the Sky far too young. Highly recommended for people who want to understand the illegality that underpins the world of the truly free-spirited. Cleo was a fiercely independent researcher whose work went on to look at the Thai sex trade, and even early adventures into "cybersex." Scarce.