Takes a feisty, bohemian look at the evolving times and trends of the second half of the last century and the early years of this one - from Gold's boyhood in Lakewood, Ohio, in the 1930s to New York and Columbia in the 1940s, joining the army at 18 and living in Paris during the 1950s before joining the beatniks and flower children in San Francisco - where he would become the city's most famous and venerated author. In an age of overheated memoirs, Still Alive! will surely find its way to a grateful audience both young and young at heart.