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Days in the Life
Jonathan Green
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Description for Days in the Life
paperback. Focusing on the 1960s, this work addresses the question: how did it feel in that dawn to be alive? Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; BG; HBJD1; HBLW3; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 35. Weight in Grams: 520.
Jonothan Green offers a time trip from lat-fifties CND, beatniks and bop to the threshold of our own decade's designer revolutionaries and style warriors. . . His chosen form is the oral history pioneered by Studs Terkel in which cross-cut voices recount a shared experience or epoch. . . what anecdotes!'Guardian. Green has collected 101 quintessential sixties groovers and lovingly teased out their memories, all of them refreshingly self-critical and remarkably sharpened by hindsight. 'Glasgow Herald. `This is the first publication I've seen on the 1960s to address all closely the question: how did it feel in that dawn to ... Read more
Jonothan Green offers a time trip from lat-fifties CND, beatniks and bop to the threshold of our own decade's designer revolutionaries and style warriors. . . His chosen form is the oral history pioneered by Studs Terkel in which cross-cut voices recount a shared experience or epoch. . . what anecdotes!'Guardian. Green has collected 101 quintessential sixties groovers and lovingly teased out their memories, all of them refreshingly self-critical and remarkably sharpened by hindsight. 'Glasgow Herald. `This is the first publication I've seen on the 1960s to address all closely the question: how did it feel in that dawn to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Pimlico
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780712666657
SKU
V9780712666657
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About Jonathan Green
Jonathon Green is one of the world’s leading lexicographers of English-language slang. His most recent dictionaries are Green’s Dictionary of Slang (3 vols, 2010) and the Chambers Slang Dictionary (2008). Among other slang-related titles he has also written The Slang Thesaurus, Slang Down the Ages: The Historical Development of Slang and Crooked Talk: The Language of Underworld. His history of ... Read more
Reviews for Days in the Life
This is the first publication I've seen on the 1960s to address all closely the question: how did it feel in that dawn to be alive?
Herald
An action packed tapestry of illuminating flashbacks
Spectator
Herald
An action packed tapestry of illuminating flashbacks
Spectator