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Remembering the Sixties
Ecco
January 2007
On Sale: January 9, 2007
240 pages
ISBN: 0060198168
EAN: 9780060198169
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A memoir of America's most turbulent, whimsical decade,
in the words of the man who experienced it all... From the New York City of Kline and De Kooning to the jazz
era of New Orleans's French Quarter to Ken Kesey's
psychedelic California, Prime Green explores the 1960s in
all its weird, innocent, fascinating glory. An account
framed by two wars, it begins with Robert Stone's last year
in the Navy, when he took part in an Antarctic expedition
navigating the globe, and ends in Vietnam, where he was a
correspondent in the days following the invasion of Laos.
Told in scintillating detail, Prime Green zips from coast to
coast, from days spent in the raucous offices of Manhattan
tabloids to the breathtaking beaches of Mexico, and merry
times aboard the bus with Kesey and the Pranksters. Building on personal vignettes from Stone's travels across
America, this powerful memoir offers the legendary
novelist's inside perspective on a time many understand only
peripherally. These accounts of the 1960s are riveting not
only because Stone is a master storyteller but because he
was there, in the thick of it, through all the wild times.
From these incredible experiences, Prime Green forges a
moving and adventurous portrait of a unique moment in
American history.
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