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The Sixties

Jenny Diski

Many books have been written on the Sixties: tributes to music and fashion sex drugs and revolution. In The Sixties Jenny Diski breaks the mould wryly dismantling the big ideas that dominated the era - liberation permissiveness and self-invention - to consider what she and her generation were really up to. Was it rude to refuse to have sex with someone? Did they take drugs to get by or to see the world differently? How responsible were they for the self-interest and greed of the Eighties?

With characteristic wit and verve Diski takes an incisive look at the radical beliefs to which her generation subscribed little realising they were often old ideas dressed up in new forms sometimes patterned by BIBA. She considers whether she and her peers were as serious as they thought about changing the world if the radical sixties were funded by the baby-boomers' parents and if the big idea shaping the Sixties was that it really felt as if it meant something to be young.

  • Classification : Biography & Memoir
  • Pub Date : JUL 1, 2010
  • Imprint : Profile Books
  • Page Extent : 160
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781846680045
  • Price : INR 650
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Jenny Diski

Jenny Diski is the author of nine novels including ONLY HUMAN and three memoirs: SKATING TO ANTARTICA STRANGER ON A TRAIN and ON TRYING TO KEEP STILL. She lives in Cambridge.

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