- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Profile Books (25 Jun 2009)
- ISBN-10: 1846680034
- ISBN-13: 978-1846680038
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.2 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 460,691 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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`Eloquent and probing...entertaining and accurate' --Robert Irwin, Independent
`Ms Diski leaves you with plenty to think about, and wanting more' --International Herald Tribune
`She writes with intelligence, wit, an eye for detail... leaves you with plenty to think about, and wanting more.' --International Herald Tribune
`Ms Diski leaves you with plenty to think about, and wanting more' --International Herald Tribune
`She writes with intelligence, wit, an eye for detail... leaves you with plenty to think about, and wanting more.' --International Herald Tribune
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'The Sixties is Diski at her most characteristically brilliant'
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Jenny Diski is a distinguished writer and some of her novels are powerful and dark evocations of people under pressure. Here by contrast she offers a witty and shrewd account of the 1960's seen from a personal perspective. She was born in 1947 and speaks of the period under scrutiny at first hand. The book is objective and highly informative history. Some chapters are rather bleak largely because she feels that as one gets older one becomes increasingly frustrated at no longer being able to influence events. She also feels as many of us born around the same time as the author that many of the hopes and opportunities which characterised the 1960's have been disappointed or squandered - sometimes by our own attitudes and actions both then and later.
The book is admirably concise and extremely well written. An accurate and sharply critical evocation of the period.
The book is admirably concise and extremely well written. An accurate and sharply critical evocation of the period.
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I really loved this book and I read it very quickly. It is a personal account of the times with much pointed reflection about what was happening in the wider context. The book is cut into chapters tackling subjects such as attitudes to sex, consumerism, work, education, drug taking, protest and mental health. I found Diski's analysis illuminating and found that it shed a lot of light on my own attitudes and beliefs, having been born in the period she is talking about. It also at the end makes an analysis about the period's liberalism and ideals and todays. Wonderful.
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At last Ive found a book that gives a personal view from a baby boomer that draws from personal and detailed experience, rather than from informed sources that will inevitably give an overview.
She looks at her privileged time in the 60s ( and believe me - it was a privileged time - free university education, high disposable income, the easy opportunity for social mobility etc) with a little embarrassment at how she thought she could change the world, along with a large clutch of youth, and also a little humour. Time must have tempered that sixties seriousness.......
It always bemuses me how many young people today say how they would like a time machine to enable them to go back to an era once golden, but were born too late. For those very youngsters who want to know what it was like for the ordinary person in the street, whether they lived at the hub of it all in London - or the provinces, Diski's book will give a good insight. You dont need to read the 500 page encyclopaedic political, social and economic "history lesson" super tomes for that.
Diski's book is a different slant on the current baby boomer literary reminiscences made all the more enjoyable because its written by a genuine "Sixties Chick" !
She looks at her privileged time in the 60s ( and believe me - it was a privileged time - free university education, high disposable income, the easy opportunity for social mobility etc) with a little embarrassment at how she thought she could change the world, along with a large clutch of youth, and also a little humour. Time must have tempered that sixties seriousness.......
It always bemuses me how many young people today say how they would like a time machine to enable them to go back to an era once golden, but were born too late. For those very youngsters who want to know what it was like for the ordinary person in the street, whether they lived at the hub of it all in London - or the provinces, Diski's book will give a good insight. You dont need to read the 500 page encyclopaedic political, social and economic "history lesson" super tomes for that.
Diski's book is a different slant on the current baby boomer literary reminiscences made all the more enjoyable because its written by a genuine "Sixties Chick" !
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