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Days In The Life

Jonathon Green author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage

Published:2nd Apr '98

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Vastly etertaining, highly illuminating and not a little moving... Days in the Life is undoubtedly the best available summery of its period and milieu, and will probably remain so for quite some time to come. 19971027

Jonothan Green offers a time trip from lat-fifties CND, beatniks and bop to the threshold of our own decade's designer revolutionaries and style warriors. . . . . Green has collected 101 quintessential sixties groovers and lovingly teased out their memories, all of them refreshingly self-critical and remarkably sharpened by hindsight. . .Jonothan Green offers a time trip from lat-fifties CND, beatniks and bop to the threshold of our own decade's designer revolutionaries and style warriors. . . His chosen form is the oral history pioneered by Studs Terkel in which cross-cut voices recount a shared experience or epoch. . . what anecdotes!'Guardian. Green has collected 101 quintessential sixties groovers and lovingly teased out their memories, all of them refreshingly self-critical and remarkably sharpened by hindsight. 'Glasgow Herald. `This is the first publication I've seen on the 1960s to address all closely the question: how did it feel in that dawn to be alive?. . . An action packed tapestry of illuminating flashbacks. 'Spectator.

This is the first publication I've seen on the 1960s to address all closely the question: how did it feel in that dawn to be alive? * Herald *
An action packed tapestry of illuminating flashbacks * Spectator *

ISBN: 9780712666657

Dimensions: 216mm x 138mm x 32mm

Weight: 515g

480 pages