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u003cpu003eSet in the London and New York underground culture´s of the ´70s and ´80s, Kicking tracks the adventures of a group of close friends through the ambiguous pleasures and dangers of those years. Connie West´s attachment to Mikey Stour begins one Sunday afternoon in 1969 on an expedition to the romantic wilderness of Highgate cemetery. Their relationship over the next twenty years is a convoluted one, intersected by the lives of friends and lovers, among them Iris, whose eccentric path is to have a strange impact on their own. Connie discovers that the emotional imprint of one´s past never dies but lies buried under the surface until, alive and kicking, sometimes as comic epiphany.u003c/pu003e u003cpu003eHere is a witty and psychologically acute portrayal of a vibrant world of artists and writers, of drug addiction and the impulse toward self-destruction, of all the ferocious loves and betrayals that change people forever.u003c/pu003e u003cpu003eLeslie Dick is the author of Without Falling (City Lights), a novel. She divides her time between London and Los Angeles, where she teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.u003c/pu003e