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Expecting to Fly: A Sixties Reckoning

Autor Martha Tod Dudman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 iun 2007
DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT IT FELT LIKE TO BE FIFTEEN? MARTHA TOD DUDMAN DOES.

It starts with a blue hash pipe in a shabby field and a hot, tight dance at the Mayflower Hotel, and rapidly accelerates against the kaleidoscopic backdrop of the Sixties.

Describing a time weirdly similar to today, Expecting to Fly recalls a conservative government embroiled in an increasingly unpopular war, racial tensions, and a generation of disillusioned young people looking for something meaningful to believe in -- teenagers who, like Dudman, hurled themselves into a sea of drugs and sex they weren't really ready for.

With the same passion and brutal honesty that she brought to her first book, Augusta, Gone -- the story of her daughter's troubled adolescence -- Dudman re-creates her own wild ride through the turbulent Sixties, vividly recounting scenes you probably experienced yourself.

From the prim tradition of a posh girls' school and debutante parties of Washington, D.C., to the snows of New Hampshire and the campaign for Eugene McCarthy, from living out of a knapsack in Spain to getting stoned on acid in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Expecting to Fly takes us on a blistering trip to a time when the only thing you couldn't be was shocked.

Now, years later, Dudman reflects on that time and what it means: "Which was it -- triumph, exploration, some important journey, or just a big stupid mistake, a total waste of time?"

You decide.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781416568117
ISBN-10: 1416568115
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 140 x 214 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Colecția Simon & Schuster

Descriere

Showcasing the "blunt, honest writing that is memoir at its best" ("The New York Times Book Review"), Martha Tod Dudman follows her parenting classic "Augusta, Gone" with a look back on her own adolescence during the volatile Vietnam era.

Notă biografică

Martha Tod Dudman is the author of Expecting to Fly and Augusta, Gone, which was adapted into an award-winning Lifetime Television movie. She lives in Maine.