Sleepwalk: California Dreamin' and a Last Dance with the '60s - Softcover

Buckley, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597660124 ISBN 13: 9781597660129

Verlag: University of Washington Press, 2006

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Book by Buckley Christopher

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"A quick-witted spectator, Buckley is anything but sleepwalking through this lovely and moving read." "Sleepwalk isn't nostalgia. It's the world we've just come from re-imagined and reconsidered."

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For Christopher Buckley, the West is more than just a direction: it stands for dreams and possibilities that are supple, color-filled, and bittersweet. Tinged with memories both comic and dark, this is a book about what it meant to grow up in California during the late '50s and early '60s, one written from the viewpoint of a spirited and insightful observer capable of deftly weaving tales about Catholic school, fashion, cars, music, and dances in the high school gym together with smooth-flowing personal reflections on poetry, politics, and life's many ironies. With uncanny accuracy, Buckley's essays show us how childhood follows us into adulthood, how the culture of our birth sustains, directs, and sometimes blinds us. Haunting in its observations, Sleepwalk is also vastly entertaining and, for anyone not familiar with the ethos of the period, terrifically informative.

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• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1597660124
• ISBN 13: 9781597660129
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160