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Souvenirs of a Blown World : Sketches for the Sixties#Writings about America, 1966#1973 by Gregory Mcdonald (2008, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSeven Stories Press
ISBN-101583228667
ISBN-139781583228661
eBay Product ID (ePID)117305980
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameSouvenirs of a Blown World : Sketches for the Sixties#Writings about America, 1966#1973
SubjectUnited States / 20th Century, Journalism, Literary
Publication Year2008
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorGregory McDonald
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight8.8 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2008-043103
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"[Gregory Mcdonald] is one of the best writers we have--to the point and always original." -New York Times Book Review "Mcdonald is one of the cleverest writers around." -United Press International
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal973.92
SynopsisBestselling author of the Fletch series Gregory Mcdonald presents firsthand accounts of major events during the sixties and interviews with Joan Baez, Abbie Hoffman, Krishnamurti, Phil Ochs, Andy Warhol, and others. The year was 1966, and fresh off the heels of his controversial debut novel Running Scared, Mcdonald was hired to write for the Boston Globe with the instruction to "Go and have fun and write about it, and if you end up cut and bleeding on the sidewalk, call the office." Souvenirs of a Blown World is an exuberant account of the people, the encounters, and emotions that raced through the nation during those indelible years. You will follow a war-battered young soldier through the steamy quagmire of Vietnam, attend a barbeque bash in Dallas for the opening of John Wayne's two hundred and first picture, watch Jack Kerouac booze himself into hallucinatory eloquence, and run through the streets of Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Captured in kaleidoscopic prose, this is the vanished world of America's revolt, the explosive second adolescence that shook old institutions to their foundations . . . the time we must relive and understand if we are to understand and live through our own.
LC Classification NumberE169.12
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