Sixties Big Ideas, Small Books

Name: Sixties Big Ideas, Small Books
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ISBN: 9780312427214

ISBN-10: 0312427212

ISBN-13: 9780312427214

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Authors: Jenny Diski

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A brilliant, alternative take on 1960's swinging London, Jenny Diski offers radical reconsiderations of the social, political, and personal meaning of that turbulent era. What was Jenny Diski doing in the 1960's? A lot: Dropping out, taking drugs, buying clothes, having sex, demonstrating, and spending time in mental hospitals. Now, as Diski herself turns sixty years old, she examines what has been lost in the purple haze of nostalgia and selective memory of that era, what endures, and what has always been the same. From the vantage point of London, she takes stock of the Sexual Revolution, the fashion, the drug culture, and the psychiatric movements and education systems of the day. What…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 9/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 4.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Jenny Diski is the author of eight novels and two memoirs: Skating to Antarctica and Stranger on a Train. She lives in Cambridge.