Description
A brilliant, alternative take on sixties 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 sixties? 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 she discovers is that the ideas of the sixties often paved the way for their antithesis, and that by confusing liberation and libertarianism, a new kind of radicalism would take over both in the UK and America. Witty, provocative, and gorgeously written, Jenny Diski promises to feed your head with new insights about everything that was, and is, the sixties.Author: Jenny Diski
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 09/01/2009
Pages: 162
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 7.16h x 4.70w x 0.45d
ISBN13: 9780312427214
ISBN10: 0312427212
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- History | Europe | Great Britain | General
- History | Modern | 20th Century | General
About the Author
JENNY DISKI is the author of eight novels and two books of travel/memoir. Her journalism appears regularly in The London Review of Books.