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Gordon Skene. Malvern/British Book Company, $24.95 ISBN 0-947993-79-7
From within a life-threatening coma, a middle-aged man delves into the mystery of what he has become, returning mentally to the California of the 1960s and '70s, in this appealing debut novel. Just after his first big break as a pianist, Nelson Rivers is hit by an L.A. bus and hospitalized. Trapped inside an unresponsive body, he is intermittently aware of loved ones around him and their attempts to get through to him. Even his dead friend Buzz appears, albeit not corporeally. Nelson's visitors play his favorite music or try to make conversation as Nelson drifts back in time to 1964, to the awkward …