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The Sixties

Paperback • 2010 • English

The Sixties

By Jenny Diski

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About the book

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? ...Show more

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ISBN

9781846680045

Publisher

Profile Books Ltd

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

The Sixties

Format

Paperback

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